Examining the changes that have occurred in families, family research, and family law in the late 20th century, this volume describes a paradigm shift in the legal and social regulation of the family to an emphasis on parents' relationships to their children, rather than to each…
Many scholars and political analysts assume that thriving kin and non-kin social support networks continue to characterize minority family life. Policy recommendations based on these underlying assumptions may lead to the implementation of harmful social policy. No More Kin exam…
No More Kin examines extended kinship networks among African American, Chicano, Puerto Rican, and non-Hispanic white families in contemporary America and seeks to provide an integrated theoretical framework for examining how the simultaneity of gender, race, and class oppression…
No More Kin examines extended kinship networks among African American, Chicano, Puerto Rican, and non-Hispanic white families in contemporary America and seeks to provide an integrated theoretical framework for examining how the simultaneity of gender, race, and class oppression…
Like Family : Narratives of Fictive Kinship
"For decades, social scientists have assumed that "fictive kinship" is a phenomenon associated only with marginal peoples and people of color in the United States. In this innovative book, Nelson reveals the frequency, texture and dynamics of relationships which are felt to be "…
Like family: narratives of fictive kinship
"For decades, social scientists have assumed that "fictive kinship" is a phenomenon associated only with marginal peoples and people of color in the United States. In this innovative book, Nelson reveals the frequency, texture and dynamics of relationships which are felt to be "…
Like family: narratives of fictive kinship
"For decades, social scientists have assumed that "fictive kinship" is a phenomenon associated only with marginal peoples and people of color in the United States. In this innovative book, Nelson reveals the frequency, texture and dynamics of relationships which are felt to be "…
"The American family used to be the fundamental institution of our stable, liberty-loving, and very successful society. It is the essential building block of a free society with limited government. In the last hundred years, the American family has been attacked, debased, malign…
Introduction -- The new normal in American family caregiving -- Caregiving begins -- The costs of care -- Decision-making: with advance direction -- Decision-making: looking for direction -- Mourning rubrics and burial -- The intricacies of wealth transfer -- 21st century caregi…
Homeward Bound draws on qualitative interviews with family caregivers to explore how the legal frameworks that define the elder care, burial, and wealth transfer process are understood, accessed, ignored, or fall short. It pays close attention to the ways a family's internal nor…
As nearly 75 million American Baby Boomers approach old age, their diverse family structures mean that caregiving will fall on a different cast of family members than in the past. Current approaches in the United States are based on a caregiving model that presumes life-long con…
Race and Mixed Race is an exploration of the philosophical, social, and historical problems related to racial identity - from the perspectives of individuals of "pure" and mixed race. Tracing the history of racial designations in the United States, Naomi Zack uses philosophical …
A Robertson family love story of brokenness and redemption.