Ross D Parke

Gebundenes Buch

Future Families

Diverse Forms, Rich Possibilities

Beschreibung

Future Families explores the variety of family forms which characterize our contemporary culture while addressing the implications of these increasingly diverse family units on child development. Noted psychologist Ross Parke traces the shifts in parental roles resulting from increased divorce rates, single-parent families, cohabiting couples, same-gender parental relationships, and other non-traditional family types. Parke reveals how the ideal nuclear family stereotype is further challenged by non-traditional family forms introduced through outside cultures, ethnic variations within our own culture, and assisted reproductive technologies. He offers recommendations as to how social policies can be modified to better reflect the new diversity of family forms and suggests ways to provide support for all families to improve the lives of adults and children. Timely and enlightening, Future Families offers rich insights into ways contemporary society has redrawn the boundaries of family.

Autor

Ross D. Parke is Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, and past Director of the Center for Family Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He has authored or co-authored several books on the field, including Fathers and Fatherhood, Throwaway Dads, Child Psychology: A Contemporary Perspective, and Social Development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 175mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780470674451
• ISBN-10: 0470674458
• Artikelnr.: 37252580

Rezensionen

Link to review in Issuu.com- Winter 2014

"The book is best thought of as a stimulus to new conversations about our conception of families and anexploration of the implications of changing family forms forchildren's development." (Society for Researchin Child Development, 1 January 2014)

Ross Parke's wonderful book arrives in a time when politicalculture wars have intensified (again), with widely clashing viewsabout what ideal families should be like. Parke provides adetailed and engaging account of the diversity of contemporaryfamilies, laying waste along the way to many widely-held mythsabout what is healthy for parents and children that have dominatedcurrent discussions without paying attention to the evidence. Thisbook

will serve as the new go-to reference source for familyscholars and their students in the social sciences and humanities.It will also be required reading for (open-minded) politicaldecision-makers and family-service providers who are concerned withhow we allocate resources for families, especially in these timesof economic distress.
--Professors Carolyn and Philip Cowan,Professors Emeriti, University of California, Berkeley

Future Families: Diverse Form, Rich Possibilities is thebest introduction to the topic of family diversity that I have seento date. A succinct but remarkably comprehensive treatment of thetopic of family diversity.
--Professor Frank Furstenberg, Department ofSociology, University of Pennsylvania

This is the most important book on the family to have beenwritten in the 21st Century. It is unsurpassed in terms of itssensitive and erudite consideration of the key questions raised bycontemporary family forms and the extent to which these questionscan be answered by empirical research. It is brings the topic aliveby including real-world examples and discussion of the social andpsychological implications of Future Families - a "must-read"for everyone with an interest in family life today.
--Professor Susan Golombok, Centre for FamilyResearch, University of Cambridge

Even Tolstoy, who thought "all happy families resemble oneanother," could not have imagined the diversity of formsthose happy families take, but Ross Parke has. In thisinnovative book he provides context, understanding, and thescientific basis for appreciating differences in numbers ofparents, gender of parents, and sources of children. Hisscholarship will inform professionals, parents, policy-makers,students, and faculty about the continuing changes in modern familystructure and life.
--Arnold Sameroff, Ph. D. , Professor Emeritusof Psychology, University of Michigan