Ebook: The Wiley Blackwell companion to the sociology of families

List of tables -- List of illustrations -- Contributors -- Preface -- Part I. Global perspectives on families: 1. Family systems of the world; 2. Changing European families; 3. American families; 4. Family change in East Asia; 5. Changes and inequalities in Latin American families -- Part II. Diversity, inequality, and immigration: 6. Same-sex families; 7. Family poverty; 8. Transnational families; 9. Ethnic diversity in the United Kingdom; 10. Immigrant families and the shifting color line in the United States -- Part III. Family forms and family influences: 11. Cohabitation; 12. Partnerships, family, and personal configurations; 13. Health and families -- introduction; 14. Religion and families -- Part IV. Family processes: 15. Divorce; 16. Partner violence in world perspective; 17. Money management, gender, and households; 18. Family transmission of social and cultural capital -- Part V. Life course perspectives: 19. Adult intergenerational relationships; 20. Children's families; 21. Fathers and fatherhood; 22. Aging families and the gendered life course -- Part VI. Families in context: 23. Public policy and families; 24. Family policy and wives' economic independence; 25. Assisted reproduction, genetic and genomic technologies, and family life; 26. Sex, family, and social change; 27. The global chaos of love.;Unprecedented social changes are taking place that pose new challenges for families. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families brings together a collection of original essays that investigate partnering, parenting and families against the backdrop of rapid social change brought about by globalization, contested cultural values, severe economic shocks, new technologies, and widespread rethinking of welfare state protection for families today.