Contemporary Parenting and Parenthood (eBook, PDF)

From News Headlines to New Research
Redaktion: Janning, Michelle Y.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Headlines from news sources are combined with the latest and best social science research to offer scholars, practitioners, and parents a much-needed source for understanding contemporary American parenthood.

News and social media headlines abound with contradictory stories about parents, from tales of neglect to fear of helicopter parenting. What readers know about parenting and parenthood can stem from misinformation and oversimplification.

In Contemporary Parenting and Parenthood, a wide variety of contributors share research on topics ranging from international adoption to technology to talking with children about racial issues. Scholars, students, parents, and practitioners alike will find that this book breaks new ground in terms of its timely approach, its spotlight on current topics, and its attention to thinking through exaggerated and conflicting media claims about contemporary parenting. Importantly, the book focuses on both parenting, the lived experiences of parents, and parenthood, the social and cultural construction of parenthood in today's world, making it a resource for those interested in the truth of the everyday lives of American parents.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781440855931
• Artikelnr.: 68206808

Autorenporträt

Michelle Y. Janning, PhD, is professor of sociology at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA, and board member of the Council on Contemporary Families. She is author of The Stuff of Family Life: How Our Homes Reflect Our Lives .

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction Michelle Janning xi Part One
Changing Patterns in Contemporary Parenting and Parenthood Chapter 1
Helicopter Parents: A New Moral Panic? 3 Margaret K. Nelson Chapter 2
World's Okayest Mom: The Adaptive Management Parent 31 Valerie Adrian
Chapter 3 The Changing Landscape of Parent-Adult Child Relations 51 Joshua
Coleman Chapter 4 Parenthood in the Age of Apps and Mommy Blogs:Technology
and Digital Culture in Parent-Child Relations 67 Michelle Y. Janning
Chapter 5 Parenthood and Mental Health in the United States: Why Don't
Children Improve Adults' Emotional Well-Being? 90 Robin W. Simon Part Two
Work, Family, and Leisure for Parents Chapter 6 Parental Leave Programs:
What Do We Know about Designing Good Policies? 119 Ankita Patnaik Chapter 7
The Promise and Limits of Work-Family Supports in a Shifting Policy
Landscape: A Double Bind for Working Mothers in Western Germany 141 Caitlyn
Collins Chapter 8 Parenthood and Leisure Time Disparities 168 Liana Sayer
Part Three Inequalities Chapter 9 Understanding Inequality: Children,
Consumer Culture, and the Empathy Framework 199 Allison J. Pugh Chapter 10
Do We Talk about Race/Ethnicity with our Children or Not? Variations in
Parental Ethnic-Racial Socialization Strategies 216 Erin Pahlke Chapter 11
What Do Visas Have to Do with Parenting? Middle-Class Dependent Visa
Holders and Transcultural Parenting 237 Pallavi Banerjee Chapter 12 Lost in
Detention and Deportation-"Found" through Foster Care and Adoption:
Reviewing the Tensions between Family Building and Human Rights in the
United States 258 Pamela Anne Quiroz Chapter 13 Child Well-Being in
Same-Gender-Parent Families: Courts, Media, and Social Science Research 283
Marshal Neal Fettro and Wendy D. Manning Chapter 14 Reproducing Family: How
Parents Accept Their LGB Children's "Good" Families 302 Taylor Field
Quiroga Conclusion 323 About the Editor and Contributors 327 Index 331