Susan L. Brown Families in America (Hardback) (US IMPORT)

Further Details\n\nTitle: Families in America\nCondition: New\nAuthor: Susan L. Brown\nFormat: Hardback\nType: Hardback\nISBN-10: 0520285883\nEAN: 9780520285880\nISBN: 9780520285880\nPublisher: University of California Press\nGenre: Society & Culture\nTopic: Social Sciences, Gender Sex & Relationships, Personal Development\nRelease Date: 01/08/2017\nDescription: In this accessible, engaging, and up-to-date course book, Susan L. Brown employs ethnographic vignettes and demographic data to introduce students to twenty-first century perspectives on contemporary families. Appropriate as a primary or secondary text in classes on family and marriage, this book probes momentous shifts in the definition of family, such as the legalization of same-sex marriage and policy debates on welfare reform and work-family issues. Brown also explores the rise in nonmarital childbearing and single-mother families and the decline of \""traditional\"" marriage by delving into the historical roots of .