Handbook of Marriage and the Family

1. Front Matter

   Pages iii-xlii

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2. Family Perspectives and Analyses

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2

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   2. Demography of the Family

      • Jay D. Teachman, Karen A. Polonko, John Scanzoni

      Pages 3-36

   3. Historical Analysis of the Family

      • Tamara K. Hareven

      Pages 37-57

   4. Comparative Perspectives

      • Gary R. Lee

      Pages 59-80

   5. The Rise of Family Theory

      • Darwin L. Thomas, Jean Edmondson Wilcox

      Pages 81-102

   6. Radical-Critical Theories

      • Marie Withers Osmond

      Pages 103-124

   7. Methodology

      • Robert E. Larzelere, David M. Klein

      Pages 125-155

   8. A Perspective on Tomorrow’s Families

      • Barbara H. Settles

      Pages 157-180

3. Diversity in Family Life

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-182

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   2. Ethnicity

      • Doris Wilkinson

      Pages 183-210

   3. Social Stratification

      • Lauren Langman

      Pages 211-249

   4. Families and Work

      • Chaya S. Piotrkowski, Robert N. Rapoport, Rhona Rapoport

      Pages 251-283

   5. Families and Religions

      • Teresa Donati Marciano

      Pages 285-315

   6. Nontraditional Family Forms

      • Eleanor D. Macklin

      Pages 317-353

   7. Singlehood

      • Arthur B. Shostak

      Pages 355-367

   8. Voluntary Childlessness

      • Sharon K. Houseknecht

      Pages 369-395

   9. Single-Parent Families

      • Patricia A. Gongla, Edward H. Thompson Jr.

      Pages 397-418

   10. Remarriage and Reconstituted Families

       • Graham B. Spanier, Frank F. Furstenberg Jr.

       Pages 419-434

4. Life Cycle Processes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 435-435

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The lucid, straightforward Preface of this Handbook by the two editors and the comprehenSIve perspec­ tives offered in the Introduction by one ofthem leave little for a Foreword to add. It is therefore limIted to two relevant but not intrinsically related points vis-a-vis research on marriage and the family in the interval since the fIrst Handbook (Christensen, 1964) appeared, namely: the impact on this research ofthe politicization of the New RIght! and of the Feminist Enlightenment beginning in the mid-sixties, about the time of the fIrst Handbook. In the late 1930s Willard Waller noted: "Fifty years or more ago about 1890, most people had the greatest respect for the institution called the family and wished to learn nothing whatever about it. . . . Everything that concerned the life of men and women and their children was shrouded from the light. Today much of that has been changed. Gone is the concealment of the way in which life begins, gone the irrational sanctity of the home. The aura of sentiment which once protected the family from discussion clings to it no more .... We wantto learn as much about it as we can and to understand it as thoroughly as possible, for there is a rising recognition in America that vast numbers of its families are sick-from internal frustrations and from external buffeting. We are engaged in the process of reconstructing our family institutions through criticism and discussion" (1938, pp. 3-4).

• Familie
• Institution
• children
• critical theory
• demography
• education
• emotion
• family policy
• gender
• interaction
• marriage
• personality
• social change
• social policy
• systems theory

• Union Graduate School of the Union Institute, Cincinnati, USA

  Marvin B. Sussman

• Department of Individual and Family Studies, University of Delaware, Newark, USA

  Marvin B. Sussman, Suzanne K. Steinmetz

• Department of Sociology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA

  Suzanne K. Steinmetz

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