The future of the family /

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Other Authors: Moynihan, Daniel P. 1927-2003., Smeeding, Timothy M., Rainwater, Lee.
Language:English
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Physical Description:xxvii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Published: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2004]
ISBN:0871546256
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: A Dahrendorf inversion and the twilight of the family: the challenge to the conference / Daniel P. Moynihan
  • Challenge of family system changes for research and policy / Timothy M. Smeeding, Daniel P. Moynihan, Lee Rainwater
  • Spread of single-parent families in the United States since 1960 / David T. Ellwood , Christopher Jencks
  • Unmarried cohabitation and parenthood: here to stay? European perspective / Kathleen Kiernan
  • Single-parent poverty, inequality, and the welfare state / Lee Rainwater, Timothy M. Smeeding
  • Father absence and child well-being: a critical review / Wendy Sigle-Rushton, Sara McLanahan
  • Fatherlessness in non-intact families and gender inequality in intact families: two sides of the same coin? / Janet C. Gornick
  • Developmentalist perspective: a missing voice / P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
  • Demography, public policy, and "problem" families / Douglas A. Wolf
  • Marriage, family, and the welfare of children: a call for action / Wade F. Horn
  • Progressive family policy in the twenty-first century / Will Marshall, Isabel V. Sawhill
  • Disincentives to care: a critique of U.S. family policy / Nancy Folbre
  • Value of children / Samuel H. Preston
  • Values, policy, and the family / Frank F. Furstenberg
  • Policy and the family / Irwin Garfinkel.