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This book examines the many roles of families in their members'
food access, preferences, and consumption. It provides an overview
of factors - from micro- to macro-levels - that have been linked to
food insecurity and discusses policy approaches to reducing food
insecurity and hunger. In addition, it addresses the links between
food insecurity and overweight and obesity. The book describes
changes in the U.S. food environment that may explain increases in
obesity during recent decades. It explores relationships between
parenting practices and the development of eating behaviors in
children, highlighting the importance of family mealtimes in
healthful eating. The volume provides an overview of efforts to
prevent or reduce obesity in children, with attention to minority
populations and discusses research findings on targets for obesity
prevention, including a focus on fathers as change agents who play
a crucial, yet understudied, role in food parenting. The book
acknowledges that with the current obesigenic environment in the
United States and elsewhere around the world, additional and
innovative efforts are needed to foster healthful eating behavior
and orientations toward food in childhood and in families. This
book is a must-have resource for researchers, professors,
clinicians, professionals, and graduate students in developmental
psychology, family studies, public health as well as numerous
interrelated disciplines, including sociology, demography, social
work, prevention science, educational policy, political science,
and economics.
This book examines the implications of rural residence for
adolescents and families in the United States, addressing both the
developmental and mental health difficulties they face. Special
attention is given to the unique circumstances of minority families
residing in rural areas and how these families navigate challenges
as well as their sources of resilience. Chapters describe
approaches for enhancing the well-being of rural minority youth and
their families. In addition, chapters discuss the challenges of
conducting research within rural populations and propose new
frameworks for studying these diverse communities. Finally, the
volume offers recommendations for reducing the barriers to health
and positive development in rural settings. Featured topics
include: Changes in work and family structures in the rural United
States. Rural job loss to offshoring and automation. The opioid
crisis in the rural United States. Prosocial behaviors in rural
U.S. Latino/a youth. Demographic changes across nonmetropolitan
areas. Rural Families and Communities in the United States is a
must-have resource for researchers, professors, clinicians,
professionals, and graduate students in developmental psychology,
family studies, public health as well as numerous interrelated
disciplines, including sociology, demography, social work,
prevention science, educational policy, political science, and
economics.
This book examines the many roles of families in their members'
food access, preferences, and consumption. It provides an overview
of factors - from micro- to macro-levels - that have been linked to
food insecurity and discusses policy approaches to reducing food
insecurity and hunger. In addition, it addresses the links between
food insecurity and overweight and obesity. The book describes
changes in the U.S. food environment that may explain increases in
obesity during recent decades. It explores relationships between
parenting practices and the development of eating behaviors in
children, highlighting the importance of family mealtimes in
healthful eating. The volume provides an overview of efforts to
prevent or reduce obesity in children, with attention to minority
populations and discusses research findings on targets for obesity
prevention, including a focus on fathers as change agents who play
a crucial, yet understudied, role in food parenting. The book
acknowledges that with the current obesigenic environment in the
United States and elsewhere around the world, additional and
innovative efforts are needed to foster healthful eating behavior
and orientations toward food in childhood and in families. This
book is a must-have resource for researchers, professors,
clinicians, professionals, and graduate students in developmental
psychology, family studies, public health as well as numerous
interrelated disciplines, including sociology, demography, social
work, prevention science, educational policy, political science,
and economics.
This book examines the implications of rural residence for
adolescents and families in the United States, addressing both the
developmental and mental health difficulties they face. Special
attention is given to the unique circumstances of minority families
residing in rural areas and how these families navigate challenges
as well as their sources of resilience. Chapters describe
approaches for enhancing the well-being of rural minority youth and
their families. In addition, chapters discuss the challenges of
conducting research within rural populations and propose new
frameworks for studying these diverse communities. Finally, the
volume offers recommendations for reducing the barriers to health
and positive development in rural settings. Featured topics
include: Changes in work and family structures in the rural United
States. Rural job loss to offshoring and automation. The opioid
crisis in the rural United States. Prosocial behaviors in rural
U.S. Latino/a youth. Demographic changes across nonmetropolitan
areas. Rural Families and Communities in the United States is a
must-have resource for researchers, professors, clinicians,
professionals, and graduate students in developmental psychology,
family studies, public health as well as numerous interrelated
disciplines, including sociology, demography, social work,
prevention science, educational policy, political science, and
economics.
This timely reference takes a rigorous look at the myriad ways
technology, from smartphones to dating apps to social media, is
affecting family life and opening new areas for study. The book
features cross-disciplinary perspectives on current trends in the
role of technology in couple and family contexts. It focuses on the
roles of parents in monitoring children's screen time, of
technology in relationship formation, and of technology in changing
family dynamics. Nuanced coverage considers the emerging conflicts
and paradoxes associated with digital family life-closeness versus
isolation, children versus parents as experts, and privacy versus
surveillance. Contributors also identify new research opportunities
as family roles and structures continue to evolve and technology
becomes a greater lens for family studies. Among the topics
covered: How parents manage young children's mobile media use
Adolescents as the family technology innovators Online dating:
changing intimacy one swipe at a time Technology in relational
systems: roles, rules, and boundaries Television "effects" on
international family change Interplay between families and
technology: future investigations Families and Technology is a
valuable resource for researchers and students in the fields of
family studies, sociology, marriage and family therapy, social
welfare, public health, and psychology. The book also appeals to
policymakers and human services personnel dedicated to better
understanding the impact of rapidly spreading technologies on
families around the globe.
This timely reference takes a rigorous look at the myriad ways
technology, from smartphones to dating apps to social media, is
affecting family life and opening new areas for study. The book
features cross-disciplinary perspectives on current trends in the
role of technology in couple and family contexts. It focuses on the
roles of parents in monitoring children's screen time, of
technology in relationship formation, and of technology in changing
family dynamics. Nuanced coverage considers the emerging conflicts
and paradoxes associated with digital family life-closeness versus
isolation, children versus parents as experts, and privacy versus
surveillance. Contributors also identify new research opportunities
as family roles and structures continue to evolve and technology
becomes a greater lens for family studies. Among the topics
covered: How parents manage young children's mobile media use
Adolescents as the family technology innovators Online dating:
changing intimacy one swipe at a time Technology in relational
systems: roles, rules, and boundaries Television "effects" on
international family change Interplay between families and
technology: future investigations Families and Technology is a
valuable resource for researchers and students in the fields of
family studies, sociology, marriage and family therapy, social
welfare, public health, and psychology. The book also appeals to
policymakers and human services personnel dedicated to better
understanding the impact of rapidly spreading technologies on
families around the globe.
This unique volume advances the literature on sleep and health by
illuminating the impacts of family dynamics on individuals' quality
and quantity of sleep. Its lifespan perspective extends across
childhood, adolescence, adulthood and older age considering both
phenomena of individual development and family system dynamics,
particularly parent-child and marital relationships. It extends, as
well, to the broader contexts of social disparities in sleep as a
significant health behavior. Emerging concepts and practical
innovations include ancestral roots of sleep in family contexts,
sleep studies as a lens for understanding family health, and
methodologies, particularly the use of actigraphy technology, for
studying sleep patterns in individuals and families. This rich area
of inquiry holds significant keys to understanding a vital human
behavior and its critical role in physical, psychological, and
relational health and wellbeing. Among the topics covered: * Sleep
and development: familial and sociocultural considerations. *
Relationship quality: implications for sleep quality and sleep
disorders. * Couple dynamics and sleep quality in an international
perspective. * Family influences on sleep: comparative and
historical-evolutionary perspectives. * Sociodemographic,
psychosocial, and contextual factors in children's sleep. * Dynamic
interplay between sleep and family life: review and directions for
future research. Family Contexts of Sleep and Health Across the
Life Course will advance the work of researchers and students in
the fields of population health, family demography and sociology,
sleep research and medicine, human development, neuroscience,
biobehavioral health, and social welfare, as well as that of
policymakers and health and human services practitioners.
The family can be a model of loving support, a crucible of
pathology, or some blend of the two. Across disciplines, it is also
the basic unit for studying human relationships, patterns of
behavior, and influence on individuals and society. As family
structures evolve and challenge previous societal norms, new means
are required for understanding their dynamics, and for improving
family interventions and policies. Emerging Methods in Family
Research details innovative approaches designed to keep researchers
apace with the diversity and complexities of today's families. This
versatile idea-book offers meaningful new ways to represent
multiple forms of diversity in family structure and process,
cutting-edge updates to family systems models and measurement
methods, and guidance on the research process, from designing
projects to analyzing findings. These chapters provide not only new
frameworks for basic research on families, but also prime examples
of their practical use in intervention and policy studies.
Contributors also consider the similarities and differences between
the study of individuals and the study of family relationships and
systems. Included in the coverage: Use of nonlinear dynamic models
to study families as coordinated symbiotic systems. Use of network
models for understanding change and diversity in the formal
structure of American families. Representing trends and
moment-to-moment variability in dyadic and family processes using
state-space modeling techniques. Why qualitative and ethnographic
methods are essential for understanding family life. Methods in
multi-site trials of family-based interventions. Implementing the
Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) to analyze the effects of
family interventions. Researchers in human development, family
studies, clinical and developmental psychology, social psychology,
sociology, anthropology, and social welfare as well as public
policy researchers will welcome Emerging Methods in Family Research
as a resource to inspire novel approaches to studying families.
The widening gap between the rich and the poor is turning the
American dream into an impossibility for many, particularly
children and families. And as the children of low-income families
grow to adulthood, they have less access to opportunities and
resources than their higher-income peers--and increasing odds of
repeating the experiences of their parents. Families in an Era of
Increasing Inequality probes the complex relations between social
inequality and child development and examines possibilities for
disrupting these ongoing patterns. Experts across the social
sciences track trends in marriage, divorce, employment, and family
structure across socioeconomic strata in the U.S. and other
developed countries. These family data give readers a deeper
understanding of how social class shapes children's paths to
adulthood and how those paths continue to diverge over time and
into future generations. In addition, contributors critique current
policies and programs that have been created to reduce disparities
and offer suggestions for more effective alternatives. Among the
topics covered: Inequality begins at home: the role of parenting in
the diverging destinies of rich and poor children. Inequality
begins outside the home: putting parental educational investments
into context. How class and family structure impact the transition
to adulthood. Dealing with the consequences of changes in family
composition. Dynamic models of poverty-related adversity and child
outcomes. The diverging destinies of children and what it means for
children's lives. As new initiatives are sought to improve the
lives of families and children in the short and long term, Families
in an Era of Increasing Inequality is a key resource for
researchers and practitioners in family studies, social work,
health, education, sociology, demography, and psychology.
This provocative volume is comprised of psychological,
socioeconomic, and cultural perspectives on couple dynamics,
particularly gender dynamics, and the future of marriage. Featuring
data on married, cohabitating, male/female, and same-sex couples,
the authors of the book's chapters analyze the changing impacts of
work, parenting, and the health benefits of marriage for men and
women. Trajectories in the evolution toward gender equality provide
the backdrop for discussions of women and men as partners, parents,
and workers in contemporary society. Contributors also keep a sharp
focus on the complexities of gender issues as they intersect with
crucial contexts of cohort, class, race/ethnicity, and sexual
orientation. Among the topics covered: Gender equality and economic
inequality: impacts on marriage. Expansionist theory expanded:
integrating sociological and psychological perspectives on gender,
work, and family change. Gender, work, and family: action in the
interactions. Changes in U.S. mothers' and fathers' time use:
causes and consequences. A case for gay fathers. Gender, marriage,
and health for same-sex and different-sex couples Gender and Couple
Relationships documents social roles and social change with
fascinating insight to advance research in fields of psychology,
sociology, demography and economics and to the benefit of work
organizations, policy makers, family and couple therapists and
other mental health professionals.
This provocative volume is comprised of psychological,
socioeconomic, and cultural perspectives on couple dynamics,
particularly gender dynamics, and the future of marriage. Featuring
data on married, cohabitating, male/female, and same-sex couples,
the authors of the book's chapters analyze the changing impacts of
work, parenting, and the health benefits of marriage for men and
women. Trajectories in the evolution toward gender equality provide
the backdrop for discussions of women and men as partners, parents,
and workers in contemporary society. Contributors also keep a sharp
focus on the complexities of gender issues as they intersect with
crucial contexts of cohort, class, race/ethnicity, and sexual
orientation. Among the topics covered: Gender equality and economic
inequality: impacts on marriage. Expansionist theory expanded:
integrating sociological and psychological perspectives on gender,
work, and family change. Gender, work, and family: action in the
interactions. Changes in U.S. mothers' and fathers' time use:
causes and consequences. A case for gay fathers. Gender, marriage,
and health for same-sex and different-sex couples Gender and Couple
Relationships documents social roles and social change with
fascinating insight to advance research in fields of psychology,
sociology, demography and economics and to the benefit of work
organizations, policy makers, family and couple therapists and
other mental health professionals.
In recent years, there has been an explosion of research on the
early origins of adult health. A growing body of evidence documents
that maternal health before conception, prenatal and perinatal
exposures, and conditions in childhood play critical roles in
health over the life course. Scientific understanding of the
multiple and interacting influences on child health and their role
in later health continues to evolve rapidly, but greater attention
to how families shape the conditions of early life that underlie
childhood health is needed. This volume aims to advance
understanding of this topic, with attention to mechanisms through
which health disparities emerge and are sustained across the
lifespan.
The widening gap between the rich and the poor is turning the
American dream into an impossibility for many, particularly
children and families. And as the children of low-income families
grow to adulthood, they have less access to opportunities and
resources than their higher-income peers--and increasing odds of
repeating the experiences of their parents. Families in an Era of
Increasing Inequality probes the complex relations between social
inequality and child development and examines possibilities for
disrupting these ongoing patterns. Experts across the social
sciences track trends in marriage, divorce, employment, and family
structure across socioeconomic strata in the U.S. and other
developed countries. These family data give readers a deeper
understanding of how social class shapes children's paths to
adulthood and how those paths continue to diverge over time and
into future generations. In addition, contributors critique current
policies and programs that have been created to reduce disparities
and offer suggestions for more effective alternatives. Among the
topics covered: Inequality begins at home: the role of parenting in
the diverging destinies of rich and poor children. Inequality
begins outside the home: putting parental educational investments
into context. How class and family structure impact the transition
to adulthood. Dealing with the consequences of changes in family
composition. Dynamic models of poverty-related adversity and child
outcomes. The diverging destinies of children and what it means for
children's lives. As new initiatives are sought to improve the
lives of families and children in the short and long term, Families
in an Era of Increasing Inequality is a key resource for
researchers and practitioners in family studies, social work,
health, education, sociology, demography, and psychology.
Early Adulthood in a Family Context, based on the 18th annual
National Symposium on Family Issues, emphasizes the importance of
both the family of origin and new and highly variable types of
family formation experiences that occur in early adulthood. This
volume showcases new theoretical, methodological, and measurement
insights in hopes of advancing understanding of the influence of
the family of origin on young adults' lives. Both family resources
and constraints with respect to economic, social, and human capital
are considered.
The family can be a model of loving support, a crucible of
pathology, or some blend of the two. Across disciplines, it is also
the basic unit for studying human relationships, patterns of
behavior, and influence on individuals and society. As family
structures evolve and challenge previous societal norms, new means
are required for understanding their dynamics, and for improving
family interventions and policies. Emerging Methods in Family
Research details innovative approaches designed to keep researchers
apace with the diversity and complexities of today's families. This
versatile idea-book offers meaningful new ways to represent
multiple forms of diversity in family structure and process,
cutting-edge updates to family systems models and measurement
methods, and guidance on the research process, from designing
projects to analyzing findings. These chapters provide not only new
frameworks for basic research on families, but also prime examples
of their practical use in intervention and policy studies.
Contributors also consider the similarities and differences between
the study of individuals and the study of family relationships and
systems. Included in the coverage: Use of nonlinear dynamic models
to study families as coordinated symbiotic systems. Use of network
models for understanding change and diversity in the formal
structure of American families. Representing trends and
moment-to-moment variability in dyadic and family processes using
state-space modeling techniques. Why qualitative and ethnographic
methods are essential for understanding family life. Methods in
multi-site trials of family-based interventions. Implementing the
Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) to analyze the effects of
family interventions. Researchers in human development, family
studies, clinical and developmental psychology, social psychology,
sociology, anthropology, and social welfare as well as public
policy researchers will welcome Emerging Methods in Family Research
as a resource to inspire novel approaches to studying families.
In recent years, there has been an explosion of research on the
early origins of adult health. A growing body of evidence documents
that maternal health before conception, prenatal and perinatal
exposures, and conditions in childhood play critical roles in
health over the life course. Scientific understanding of the
multiple and interacting influences on child health and their role
in later health continues to evolve rapidly, but greater attention
to how families shape the conditions of early life that underlie
childhood health is needed. This volume aims to advance
understanding of this topic, with attention to mechanisms through
which health disparities emerge and are sustained across the
lifespan.
Biosocial Research Contributions to Family Processes and Problems,
based on the 17th annual National Symposium on Family Issues,
examines biosocial models and processes in the context of the
family. Research on both biological and social/environmental
influences on behavior, health, and development is represented,
including behavioral endocrinology, behavior genetics,
neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, sociology, demography,
anthropology, economics, and psychology. The authors consider
physiological and social environmental influences on parenting and
early childhood development, followed by adolescent adjustment, and
family formation. Also, factors that influence how families adapt
to social inequalities are examined.
"Early Adulthood in a Family Context," based on the 18th annual
National Symposium on Family Issues, emphasizes the importance of
both the family of origin and new and highly variable types of
family formation experiences that occur in early adulthood. This
volume showcases new theoretical, methodological, and measurement
insights in hopes of advancing understanding of the influence of
the family of origin on young adults' lives. Both family resources
and constraints with respect to economic, social, and human capital
are considered.
Biosocial Research Contributions to Family Processes and Problems,
based on the 17th annual National Symposium on Family Issues,
examines biosocial models and processes in the context of the
family. Research on both biological and social/environmental
influences on behavior, health, and development is represented,
including behavioral endocrinology, behavior genetics,
neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, sociology, demography,
anthropology, economics, and psychology. The authors consider
physiological and social environmental influences on parenting and
early childhood development, followed by adolescent adjustment, and
family formation. Also, factors that influence how families adapt
to social inequalities are examined.
Translation is an art as taxing as any of the fine arts practiced
by humankind. The translator is caught between the need to render
the original in a readable and polished version of the target
language and the obligation not to depart too far from the
original, which might have fine nuances not easily transferred from
one language to another. The problem is so well known that
generations of students have given their years to studying
languages so as not to lose those drops of the original
distillation that are inevitably spilled in the process of
transfer. The translator cannot retreat from the confrontation and
must do the best he can. In translating Israel W eissbrem's work
one is faced with a complicating factor: The author was writing in
a language that was in the process of revivification after a long
era during which it had been able to cope with the demands made
upon its resources. The literary demands up until then were largely
of the philosophical and theological order with which the extant
lexicographical inventory could cope. Then, in the nineteenth
century, belles lettres, poetry, the novel, and the essay made
demands that necessitated updating the Hebrew language into a
vernacular that could muster an inventory of phrases for every life
setting.
This book examines ways in which families' physical environments
have implications for their relationships and the health and
well-being of their members. Attention is given to three aspects of
the physical environment-disasters, climate change, and the built
environment-and the challenges these may create for families.
Chapters describe particular considerations within each of these
three physical environment challenges, the ways they affect
families, and factors that protect families, promote their
resilience and enable them to flourish. Finally, the volume offers
recommendations for the role of government programs and policies to
support families to overcome and/or adapt to environmental
challenges as well as highlights the efficacy of evidence-based
interventions aimed at promoting family resilience.Featured areas
of coverage include: Extreme natural events and families'
postdisaster recovery. Family adaptations to climate change. The
built environment and children's health and well-being.
Community-driven approaches to address environmental inequities.
The urban environment of family caregiving. Environmental Impacts
on Families is a must-have resource for researchers, professors,
and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists,
policymakers, and other related professionals in developmental
psychology, family studies, environmental health and policy, social
work, public health, educational policy and politics, economics,
migration studies, and all interrelated disciplines.
This book examines the similarities in children's short- and
long-term development and adjustment when they have been separated
from their parents because of larger institutional forces. It
addresses the unique circumstances and the similarities faced by
parents and children under three different institutional contexts
of separation: parental migration and deportation, parental
incarceration, and parental military deployment. Chapters describe
the difficulties faced by families in each of these circumstances,
along with the challenges in conducting research under the
multidimensional and dynamic complexities of parent-child
separation. Finally, the volume offers recommendations for creating
supportive structures and interventions for families facing
separation that can bolster youth well-being in childhood and
beyond. Featured areas of coverage include: * Parental migration. *
Parental incarceration. * Parental military deployment. *
Undocumented migration and deportation. * Child-parent relationship
and child resilience and adjustment. Parent-Child Separation is a
must-have resource for researchers, professors, clinicians,
professionals, and graduate students in developmental psychology,
family studies, public health, clinical social work, educational
policy, and migration studies as well as all interrelated
disciplines, including sociology, criminology, demography,
prevention science, political science, and economics.
This book examines the similarities in children's short- and
long-term development and adjustment when they have been separated
from their parents because of larger institutional forces. It
addresses the unique circumstances and the similarities faced by
parents and children under three different institutional contexts
of separation: parental migration and deportation, parental
incarceration, and parental military deployment. Chapters describe
the difficulties faced by families in each of these circumstances,
along with the challenges in conducting research under the
multidimensional and dynamic complexities of parent-child
separation. Finally, the volume offers recommendations for creating
supportive structures and interventions for families facing
separation that can bolster youth well-being in childhood and
beyond. Featured areas of coverage include: * Parental migration. *
Parental incarceration. * Parental military deployment. *
Undocumented migration and deportation. * Child-parent relationship
and child resilience and adjustment. Parent-Child Separation is a
must-have resource for researchers, professors, clinicians,
professionals, and graduate students in developmental psychology,
family studies, public health, clinical social work, educational
policy, and migration studies as well as all interrelated
disciplines, including sociology, criminology, demography,
prevention science, political science, and economics.
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