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Contents
Preface
I. The Changing Family
Editor’s Introduction
1) The Adoption Maze. Kim Clark and Nancy Shute. U.S.
News & World Report
2) The Reappearing Nuclear Family. David Blankenhorn.
First Things
3) Step by Step. Roberta Israeloff. Parents
4) Children of Two Faiths. April Austin. The Christian
Science Monitor
5) AARP Survey: Boomer Population Redefines "Sandwich
Generation." PR Newswire
6) Make Room for Granddaddy. Pamela Paul. American
Demographics
II. The Collective Majority
Editor’s Introduction
1) Kindred: A Portrait of Our Families Today. Valerie
Wilson Wesley. Essence
2) Time to Take a Closer Look at Hispanic Children and
Families. Kristin Anderson Moore. Policy & Practice of Public Human
Services
3) Culture Clash: Asian-American Families Struggle to
Reconcile Expectations of East and West. Maria T. Padilla. Orlando
Sentinel
III. Marriage and Other
Partnerships
Editor’s Introduction
1) The State of Our Unions. David Popenoe and Barbara
Dafoe Whitehead. USA Today Magazine
2) Should You Stay Together for the Kids? Walter Kirn.
Time
3) Breaking Up Is Hard to Do. Mubarak Dahir. The Advocate
IV. Families in Crisis
Editor’s Introduction
1) More Americans Put Families Ahead of Work. Stephanie
Armour. USA Today
2) Mission Impossible. Jane Yager. Dollars & Sense
3) Stifled Screams. Armstrong Williams. New York
Amsterdam News
4) Who’s in Charge Here? Nancy Gibbs. Time
V. Planning Parenthood
Editor’s Introduction
1) The Perils of Early Motherhood. Isabel V. Sawhill. The
Public Interest
2) Human in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Karen
Wright. Discover
3) The Ethics of Human Cloning: James Q. Wilson vs. Leon
Kass. James Q. Wilson and Leon Kass. American Enterprise
4) Childfree in Toyland. Christopher Clausen. The
American Scholar
VI. Nontraditional Families
Editor’s Introduction
1) The Battle to Be a Parent. Richard Tate. The Advocate
2) Confessions of a Black Mr. Mom. Ta-Nehisi Coates. The
Washington Monthly
3) Love Without Borders. Lynette Clemetson. Newsweek
4) The End of the Family? Terry Golway. America
Bibliography
Books
Web Sites
Additional Periodical Articles with Abstracts
Index
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