Bringing together essays by twenty-one distinguished scholars who have helped shape the field of family sociology in the last decade, this interdisciplinary ant

Changes in family and household composition are part of every individual's life course. Childhood families expand and contract; the individual leaves to set up

The author examines the changing nature of the American family including issues of fatherhood, child abuse, adolescence, and old age.

Over the last forty years, the number of American households with a stay-at-home parent has dwindled as women have increasingly joined the paid workforce and mo