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Examine the changing structure of the family as America's
population ages! As the United States' economy evolves and
manufacturing jobs disappear, the prospect of each generation
experiencing a standard of living that exceeds that of their
parents' generation also disappears. Challenges of Aging on U.S.
Families: Policy and Practice Implications explores this trend,
presenting the latest original research on the changing roles of
caregivers along with the economic and emotional effects on the
family unit. Respected authorities discuss in detail long-term care
and the standard of living of families, with a focus on the effects
of changing family structures on families themselves and society at
large. The coming boom in the population of the aging will impact
families at several levels. Challenges of Aging on U.S. Families
thoroughly examines the economic demands of aging on families, then
focuses on different roles elderly family members are likely to
play over the next several decades. Some of the issues explored
include skipped generation parenting where children are raised in
grandparent homes where neither parent is present, the impending
economic impact of caregiving on families, the stress on families
with fewer siblings to share the caregiving tasks, and the tendency
for family members to live in different parts of the country and
subsequently become unable to offer caregiver support. Detailed
tables provide clarity of thought while comprehensive
bibliographies offer further opportunity for study. Challenges of
Aging on U.S. Families discusses: the economics of aging the
implications of aging economics and emotional stress on the future
of families the coming labor shortage of caregivers family-based
intervention in residential long-term care shifting relationships
between parents and their children caregivers self-esteem issues
involving daughter caregivers paying family caregiversas public
policy a proposed policy of requiring adult children to care for
their aging parents inheritance and intergenerational transmission
of parental care the inherent psychological stress within skipped
generation families Challenges of Aging on U.S. Families: Policy
and Practice Implications is an eye-opening text for researchers,
health professionals, social workers, counselors, caregivers,
educators, and students.
Examine the changing structure of the family as America's
population ages As the United States' economy evolves and
manufacturing jobs disappear, the prospect of each generation
experiencing a standard of living that exceeds that of their
parents' generation also disappears. Challenges of Aging on U.S.
Families: Policy and Practice Implications explores this trend,
presenting the latest original research on the changing roles of
caregivers along with the economic and emotional effects on the
family unit. Respected authorities discuss in detail long-term care
and the standard of living of families, with a focus on the effects
of changing family structures on families themselves and society at
large. The coming boom in the population of the aging will impact
families at several levels. Challenges of Aging on U.S. Families
thoroughly examines the economic demands of aging on families, then
focuses on different roles elderly family members are likely to
play over the next several decades. Some of the issues explored
include "skipped generation parenting" where children are raised in
grandparent homes where neither parent is present, the impending
economic impact of caregiving on families, the stress on families
with fewer siblings to share the caregiving tasks, and the tendency
for family members to live in different parts of the country and
subsequently become unable to offer caregiver support. Detailed
tables provide clarity of thought while comprehensive
bibliographies offer further opportunity for study.Challenges of
Aging on U.S. Families discusses: the economics of aging the
implications of aging economics and emotional stress on the future
of families the coming labor shortage of caregivers family-based
intervention in residential long-term care shifting relationships
between parents and their children caregivers self-esteem issues
involving daughter caregivers paying family caregivers--as public
policy a proposed policy of requiring adult children to care for
their aging parents inheritance and intergenerational transmission
of parental care the inherent psychological stress within skipped
generation familiesChallenges of Aging on U.S. Families: Policy and
Practice Implications is an eye-opening text for researchers,
health professionals, social workers, counselors, caregivers,
educators, and students.
Explore the most fundamental human relationshipbetween parent and
child Western social science has long neglected to acknowledge that
family relationships must always be examined from a culturally
sensitive perspective. Parent-Youth Relations: Cultural and
Cross-Cultural Perspectives fills this void by exploring in depth
the most fundamental human relationshipbetween parent and childin
different societies around the world. International experts provide
a comprehensive collection of original research and theory on how
parental styles and the effects of culture are interconnected.
Written from diverse perspectives, this unique resource reveals
deep insight into these relationships by focusing on the
individuals, the structure of the family, and societal and cultural
influences. Parental relations and cultural belief systems both
play integral parts on how socialization and development occur in
children. Parent-Youth Relations: Cultural and Cross-Cultural
Perspectives presents several viewpoints, some comparing
similarities and differences across societies or nations, others
exploring relationships within a single culture. This probing
global look at parent-youth relations provides sensitively nuanced
information valuable for every professional or student in the
social sciences. Detailed tables illustrate research data while
thorough bibliographies offer opportunities for further study.
Parent-Youth Relations: Cultural and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
explores: parenting style and its effects on children in Chinese
culture parenting style in problem-solving situations in Hong Kong
cross-national perspectives on parental acceptance-rejection theory
multinational studies of interparental conflict, parenting, and
adolescent functioning the relationship between parenting behaviors
and adolescent achievement in Chile and Ecuador parent-adolescent
relations and problem behaviors in Hungary, the Netherlands,
Switzerland, and the United States cross-national analysis of
family and school socialization and adolescent academic achievement
parent-child contact after divorcefrom the child's perspective
familial impacts on adolescent aggression and depression in
Colombia predicting Korean adolescents' sexual behavior from
individual and family factors parenting in Mexican society
relations with parents and friends during adolescence and early
adulthood parent-child relationships in childhood and adulthood and
their effect on the parent's marriage the effects of financial
hardship, interparental conflict, and maternal parenting in Germany
and more original research studies! Parent-Youth Relations:
Cultural and Cross-Cultural Perspectives presents the freshest
research available along with extensive bibliographies, providing
essential reading for educators, advanced undergraduates, graduate
students, and professionals in family studies, sociology,
psychology, and anthropology.
How much power does a father have to influence his children's
development? A lively and often heated public debate on the role
and value of the father in a family has been underway in the United
States for the past decade. Nevertheless, we are far from
understanding the complex ways in which fathers make contributions
to their families and children. Fatherhood: Research,
Interventions, and Policies addresses the central questions of the
role of fathers: What is the impact of father involvement on child
outcomes? What factors predict increased involvement of
fathers?Bringing together papers presented at the Conference on
Father Involvement, this volume includes contributions by leading
scholars in anthropology, demography, economics, family science,
psychology, and sociology. Many of the contributors also address
the implications of father involvement for family policy issues,
including family leave, child care, and child support. Furthermore,
the discussion of fatherhood ranges well beyond the case of intact,
middle-class, white families to include fathers from various ethnic
groups and socioeconomic classes and of varied marital status,
including fathers of nonmarital children, single-father families,
and nonresident fathers. Fatherhood: Research, Interventions, and
Policies addresses both practical and theoretical concerns,
including: the redefinition of fatherhood changes over time in
research on fatherhood the predictive power of fathers'activities
on their children's adult outcomes the correlation between
fathers'income and their involvement with their nonmarital children
the influence of fathers on their sons'probability of growing up to
become responsible fathers the effects of divorce on father-son and
father-daughter relationships interventions that help to keep
divorced fathers in touch with their childrenThis comprehensive,
powerful book combines pioneering empirical research with
thoughtful consideration of the social and psychological
implications of fatherhood. It is essential reading for
researchers, policymakers, psychologists, and students of family
studies, human development, gender studies, social policy,
sociology, and human ecology.
The family is the place where minds come in contact with one
another Buddha Emotions and the Family reflects the dramatic change
in how professionals and practitioners working with today's
families view the role of emotions in general family and marital
processes. Professionals, researchers, and academics present a wide
variety of approaches to the study of emotion and family
functioning, providing a rare theoretical and empirical look at how
emotions regulate, guide, and influence actions and behaviors
within the family. This unique book will provide you with new
avenues of research, theory, measurement, and analysis, emphasizing
contexts that range from the focus on specific relationships within
the family to the impact of contextual influences in family
emotionality. Emotions and the Family examines the shift that has
taken place in how practitioners and therapists view emotions as
having important interpsychic functions instead of as a function of
intrapsychic processes.The book will show you how emotions are
involved in almost every aspect of family development: from the
beginnings of the family formation (dating, courting, and marriage)
to the transition to parenthood (pregnancy, birth, bonding, and
attachment) to the dissolution of family relationships (divorce,
death). Authors discuss aspects of how the fabric of family life is
woven together by the complex interplay of emotions, with essential
information on: marital/family relationships parenting
socialization sibling relationships family health dysfunctional
family processes family therapy and much more Emotions and the
Family functions as an invaluable textbook for graduate studies in
family sciences, child development, psychology, social work, and
sociology. The book is equally effective as a professional resource
for clinical practitioners in psychology, marriage and family
therapy, and social work.
"The family is the place where minds come in contact with one
another"--Buddha
Emotions and the Family reflects the dramatic change in how
professionals and practitioners working with today's families view
the role of emotions in general family and marital processes.
Professionals, researchers, and academics present a wide variety of
approaches to the study of emotion and family functioning,
providing a rare theoretical and empirical look at how emotions
regulate, guide, and influence actions and behaviors within the
family. This unique book will provide you with new avenues of
research, theory, measurement, and analysis, emphasizing contexts
that range from the focus on specific relationships within the
family to the impact of contextual influences in family
emotionality.
Emotions and the Family examines the shift that has taken place in
how practitioners and therapists view emotions--as having important
interpsychic functions instead of as a function of intrapsychic
processes. The book will show you how emotions are involved in
almost every aspect of family development: from the beginnings of
the family formation (dating, courting, and marriage) to the
transition to parenthood (pregnancy, birth, bonding, and
attachment) to the dissolution of family relationships (divorce,
death). Authors discuss aspects of how the fabric of family life is
woven together by the complex interplay of emotions, with essential
information on: marital/family relationships parenting
socialization sibling relationships family health dysfunctional
family processes family therapy and much more! Emotions and the
Family functions as an invaluable textbook for graduate studies in
family sciences, childdevelopment, psychology, social work, and
sociology. The book is equally effective as a professional resource
for clinical practitioners in psychology, marriage and family
therapy, and social work.
Meet the men and women whose groundbreaking work elevated the field
of family studies! In Pioneering Paths in the Study of Families:
The Lives and Careers of Family Scholars, you'll find 40
autobiographies written by leading scholars in sociology, family
studies, psychology, and child development. Their fascinating
stories demonstrate how their family experiences, educational
opportunities, and occupational endeavors not only shaped the
disciplines they chose but also shaped the theoretical perspectives
they utilized and the topics they researched. From the editors:
These autobiographies document the experiences of scholars from the
early twentieth century to the present. The descriptions of early
influences on their education, of their graduate school
experiences, and of their academic career paths, provides a wealth
of valuable material. Since four of these scholars have died and a
number are in their eighties or older, these histories provide rich
case studies on factors that influence the decision to go to
college, get married, pursue an advanced degree, make specific
occupational choices, and investigate certain topics. These
autobiographies also detail the barriers that early women scholars
in the social sciences faced. The scholars whose lives you will
learn about in Pioneering Paths in the Study of Families include:
Joan Aldous Katherine R. Allen Pauline Boss Carlfred B. Broderick
Wesley R. Burr Catherine Street Chilman Harold T. Christensen
Marilyn Coleman Rand D. Conger Randal D. Day William J. Doherty
Evelyn Millis Duvall Glen H. Elder, Jr. Bernard Farber Margaret
Feldman Mark A. Fine Greer Litton Fox Frank F. Furstenberg Viktor
Gecas Harold D. Grotevant Gerald Handel Michael E. Lamb Ralph
LaRossa Gary R. Lee Helena Znaniecka Lopata Harriette P. McAdoo
Hamilton McCubbin Brent C. Miller Phyllis Moen Gerhard Neubeck Gary
W. Peterson Ira L. Reiss John Scanzoni Walter R. Schumm Barbara H.
Settles Laurence Steinberg Suzanne K. Steinmetz Sheldon Stryker
Marvin B. Sussman Irv Tallman
Meet the men and women whose groundbreaking work elevated the field
of family studies! In Pioneering Paths in the Study of Families:
The Lives and Careers of Family Scholars, you'll find 40
autobiographies written by leading scholars in sociology, family
studies, psychology, and child development. Their fascinating
stories demonstrate how their family experiences, educational
opportunities, and occupational endeavors not only shaped the
disciplines they chose but also shaped the theoretical perspectives
they utilized and the topics they researched. From the editors:
These autobiographies document the experiences of scholars from the
early twentieth century to the present. The descriptions of early
influences on their education, of their graduate school
experiences, and of their academic career paths, provides a wealth
of valuable material. Since four of these scholars have died and a
number are in their eighties or older, these histories provide rich
case studies on factors that influence the decision to go to
college, get married, pursue an advanced degree, make specific
occupational choices, and investigate certain topics. These
autobiographies also detail the barriers that early women scholars
in the social sciences faced. The scholars whose lives you will
learn about in Pioneering Paths in the Study of Families include:
Joan Aldous Katherine R. Allen Pauline Boss Carlfred B. Broderick
Wesley R. Burr Catherine Street Chilman Harold T. Christensen
Marilyn Coleman Rand D. Conger Randal D. Day William J. Doherty
Evelyn Millis Duvall Glen H. Elder, Jr. Bernard Farber Margaret
Feldman Mark A. Fine Greer Litton Fox Frank F. Furstenberg Viktor
Gecas Harold D. Grotevant Gerald Handel Michael E. Lamb Ralph
LaRossa Gary R. Lee Helena Znaniecka Lopata Harriette P. McAdoo
Hamilton McCubbin Brent C. Miller Phyllis Moen Gerhard Neubeck Gary
W. Peterson Ira L. Reiss John Scanzoni Walter R. Schumm Barbara H.
Settles Laurence Steinberg Suzanne K. Steinmetz Sheldon Stryker
Marvin B. Sussman Irv Tallman
How much power does a father have to influence his children's
development? A lively and often heated public debate on the role
and value of the father in a family has been underway in the United
States for the past decade. Nevertheless, we are far from
understanding the complex ways in which fathers make contributions
to their families and children. Fatherhood: Research,
Interventions, and Policies addresses the central questions of the
role of fathers: Ž What is the impact of father involvement on
child outcomes? Ž What factors predict increased involvement of
fathers?Bringing together papers presented at the Conference on
Father Involvement, this volume includes contributions by leading
scholars in anthropology, demography, economics, family science,
psychology, and sociology. Many of the contributors also address
the implications of father involvement for family policy issues,
including family leave, child care, and child support. Furthermore,
the discussion of fatherhood ranges well beyond the case of intact,
middle-class, white families to include fathers from various ethnic
groups and socioeconomic classes and of varied marital status,
including fathers of nonmarital children, single-father families,
and nonresident fathers. Fatherhood: Research, Interventions, and
Policies addresses both practical and theoretical concerns,
including: the redefinition of fatherhood changes over time in
research on fatherhood the predictive power of fathers'activities
on their children's adult outcomes the correlation between
fathers'income and their involvement with their nonmarital children
the influence of fathers on their sons'probability of growing up to
become responsible fathers the effects of divorce on father-son and
father-daughter relationships interventions that help to keep
divorced fathers in touch with their childrenThis comprehensive,
powerful book combines pioneering empirical research with
thoughtful consideration of the social and psychological
implications of fatherhood. It is essential reading for
researchers, policymakers, psychologists, and students of family
studies, human development, gender studies, social policy,
sociology, and human ecology.
Following the passage of the fifteenth and twentieth anniversaries
of the entry of many former communist states into both NATO and the
EU in 2019, this book takes a comprehensive look at the changed
security conditions of these new member states. How has NATO and EU
membership improved their overall defense protection, and what
elements are still missing for them on an individual state basis?
Lubecki and Peterson provide an invaluable assessment of defence
policies, from the stable East Central European states to the most
jeopardised Baltic states. With chapters on the Cold War defence
conditions during the last two decades of Soviet domination, the
post 1989-91 transformations in the direction of democracy, and the
impact of the 2014 Ukraine-Russia-Crimea crisis, this book is
essential reading for those seeking to understand the changed
landscape of European politics in the twenty-first century. -- .
The third edition of Handbook of Marriage and the Family describes,
analyzes, synthesizes, and critiques the current research and
theory about family relationships, family structural variations,
and the role of families in society. This updated Handbook provides
the most comprehensive state-of-the art assessment of the existing
knowledge of family life, with particular attention to variations
due to gender, socioeconomic, race, ethnic, cultural, and
life-style diversity. The Handbook also aims to provide the best
synthesis of our existing scholarship on families that will be a
primary source for scholars and professionals but also serve as the
primary graduate text for graduate courses on family relationships
and the roles of families in society. In addition, the involvement
of chapter authors from a variety of fields including family
psychology, family sociology, child development, family studies,
public health, and family therapy, gives the Handbook a
multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary framework.
The German Catholic immigrants who founded St. John the Baptist
parish on the central Minnesota prairie effected a remarkable
transfer of tradition to their new environment. Fred W. Peterson
reveals how they inherited folk culture, aesthetic values, and
religious beliefs which were directly embodied in the brick
farmhouses, dairy farms, and churches they built between 1858 and
1915. Building Community, Keeping the Faith is compelling reading
for students of architecture, religion, immigration, and ethnicity
-- indeed for anyone interested in the complex influence European
culture exerted on the development of America.
The 2014 Ukrainian-Crimean crisis has raised serious questions in
the West about Russian motivations and future policy directions.
Now more than ever, it is imperative to explore the defensive
perceptions, reactions, and preparations of neighbouring countries,
the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. Is there a
convergence of their approaches along similar paths, or do their
different cultures and historical experiences prefigure a
divergence of their defense policies? While Slovakia, Hungary and
Czech Republic all seem to have little concern about Russia's
policies in Ukraine, the Polish response has been uniquely strong
and militarized. This book will explore reasons for the different
responses to the crisis. -- .
The 2014 Ukrainian-Crimean crisis has raised serious questions in
the West about Russian motivations and future policy directions.
Now more than ever, it is imperative to explore the defensive
perceptions, reactions, and preparations of neighbouring countries,
the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. Is there a
convergence of their approaches along similar paths, or do their
different cultures and historical experiences prefigure a
divergence of their defense policies? While Slovakia, Hungary and
Czech Republic all seem to have little concern about Russia's
policies in Ukraine, the Polish response has been uniquely strong
and militarized. This book will explore reasons for the different
responses to the crisis. -- .
Following the passage of the fifteenth and twentieth anniversaries
of the entry of many former communist states into both NATO and the
EU in 2019, this book takes a comprehensive look at the changed
security conditions of these new member states. How has NATO and EU
membership improved their overall defense protection, and what
elements are still missing for them on an individual state basis?
Utilizing alliance politics theory, convergence/divergence theory,
and defense policy theory, Lubecki and Peterson provide an
invaluable assessment of defense policies, from the stable East
Central European states to the most jeopardized Baltic states in
the north of Europe. With chapters on the Cold War defense
conditions during the last two decades of Soviet domination, the
post 1989-91 transformations in the direction of democracy, and the
impact of the 2014 Ukraine-Russia-Crimea crisis, this book is
essential reading for those seeking to understand the changed
landscape of European politics in the twenty-first century. -- .
The third edition of Handbook of Marriage and the Family describes,
analyzes, synthesizes, and critiques the current research and
theory about family relationships, family structural variations,
and the role of families in society. This updated Handbook provides
the most comprehensive state-of-the art assessment of the existing
knowledge of family life, with particular attention to variations
due to gender, socioeconomic, race, ethnic, cultural, and
life-style diversity. The Handbook also aims to provide the best
synthesis of our existing scholarship on families that will be a
primary source for scholars and professionals but also serve as the
primary graduate text for graduate courses on family relationships
and the roles of families in society. In addition, the involvement
of chapter authors from a variety of fields including family
psychology, family sociology, child development, family studies,
public health, and family therapy, gives the Handbook a
multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary framework.
Basketball is now over a century old. "Cages to Jump Shots" offers
an unforgettable glimpse of its exciting and eccentric early years,
beginning in 1891 when James Naismith drew up the first rules,
through decades of growing popularity and professionalism, and
culminating with its fundamental transformation in the 1950s, when
the twenty-four-second shot clock and team foul limit were
instituted. Along the way we learn about all those who were drawn
to the game--players, officials, owners, and fans--and why so many
came to love it. Drawing on extensive research and a host of
interviews with veteran players, Robert W. Peterson vividly
recreates the rough-and-tumble basketball games of long ago and
shows why basketball has become such a celebrated part of American
life today. This Bison Books edition features an updated appendix
of early pro basketball teams.
In 1839, the Abbé Jacques Suchet was sent to the Algerian city of
Constantine, recently conquered by French forces, to minister to
the new French colonial population there. He commented favorably on
the Arabs' Muslim religiosity, perhaps seeing them as fertile
ground for missionary work. In the mid-1870s, when the Abbé Edmond
Lambert toured another colonial Algerian city, he recorded that
Arabs were inherently "liars, thieves, lazy in body and spirit" and
that even their seeming piety was insincere. In the space of less
than forty years, some French Catholics went from viewing Muslims
in Algeria as fellow religious devotees, potential converts, and
allies against French secularism to viewing them as enemies of
civilization. Sacred Rivals focuses on French Catholic ideas about
Islam and Arab-ness-"Catholic orientalism"-in the context of
religious culture wars in France and of missionary work in colonial
Algeria. It examines the way the stereotype of "Islam" was used and
abused in religious and political debates in French society, as
well as actual missionary encounters with Muslims in Algeria, where
missionaries and their potential converts came into intimate, daily
contact. It reveals that, counter-intuitively, it was sometimes the
most conservative Catholics who spoke most sympathetically of
Muslim religiosity. "Liberal," mainstream Catholics were often
quicker to denigrate Islam as backward, fanatical, and dangerously
theocratic. As Catholics increasingly came to identify with
France's more secular "civilizing mission," any admiration for
Islam would be eclipsed by a more racialized, colonialist view of
Islam. Disillusioned with the possibility of Muslim conversion and
seeking an explanation for their failure, even missionaries in
Algeria joined in with racially-coded attacks on "Arab" Islam.
Through stories of personal encounters, Sacred Rivals exposes the
ways in which religious prejudices against Muslims transformed into
racial ones, as well as the ways in which Algerian Muslims adapted,
used, and resisted French culture and imperialism.
Why did the Russian take-over of Crimea come as a surprise to so
many observers in the academic, practitioner and global-citizen
arenas? The answer presented in this textbook is a complex one,
rooted in late-Cold War dualities but also in the variegated policy
patterns of the two powers after 1991. The 2014 crisis was provoked
by conflicting perspectives over the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, the
expansion of NATO to include former communist allies of Russia as
well as three of its former republics, the American decision to
invade Iraq in 2003, and the Russian move to invade Georgia in
2008. This book uses a number of key theories in political science
to create a framework for analysis and to outline policy options
for the future. It is vital that the attentive public confront the
questions raised in these pages in order to control the reflexive
and knee-jerk reactions to all points of conflict that emerge on a
regular basis between America and Russia. -- .
Why did the Russian take-over of Crimea come as a surprise to so
many observers in the academic, practitioner and global-citizen
arenas? The answer presented in this textbook is a complex one,
rooted in late-Cold War dualities but also in the variegated policy
patterns of the two powers after 1991. The 2014 crisis was provoked
by conflicting perspectives over the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, the
expansion of NATO to include former communist allies of Russia as
well as three of its former republics, the American decision to
invade Iraq in 2003, and the Russian move to invade Georgia in
2008. This book uses a number of key theories in political science
to create a framework for analysis and to outline policy options
for the future. It is vital that the attentive public confront the
questions raised in these pages in order to control the reflexive
and knee-jerk reactions to all points of conflict that emerge on a
regular basis between America and Russia. -- .
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