The Futures of the FamilyThis text considers what family life used to be like in other times and what it is currently like in other places. It examines positive and negative aspects of recent changes, perceptions of family, images of the family in the media and issues such as divorce and family breakdown. |
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Kinship Clan and Community | 23 |
Household Size Crowding and Privacy | 30 |
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abortion abuse adults African-American American argue arranged marriages average birth century changes in family child childbearing childless cohabitation common commuter marriages concatenated families contraception corporate family countries couples cultural decline demographic transition divorce rates economic emotional endogamy example expect extended family fami familistic family change family forms family households family members fathers feminization of poverty fertility flextime Furstenberg husband ibid important income increase industrialization kind of family kinship labor force less male marital married married couples matrilineal means modern mothers nomic North America nuclear family number of children parenthood parents partner people's percent policies population poverty pregnancy problems reasons relations relationship remarriage remarry riage role sexual sexual revolution shows single-parent families social societies spousal spouses Sweden Swedish teenage pregnancy theory tion traditional trends United unmarried urban violence Western wives women young zadruga