Family Studies Arena

From Welfare to Childcare

What Happens to Young Children When Mothers Exchange Welfare for Work?

• Edited by Natasha Cabrera, Robert Hutchens and H. Elizabeth Peters.

Published May 2006

Although federal and state support for childcare has increased dramatically in response to welfare work requirements, low-income families are still facing difficulties balancing work and family obligations. There is wide variation across states in the strictness of welfare work requirements and in…
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Acculturation and Parent-Child Relationships

Measurement and Development

• Edited by Marc H. Bornstein, and Linda R. Cote.

Published February 2006

Although many researchers agree on a general definition of acculturation, the conceptualization and measurement of acculturation remain controversial. To address the issues, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) sponsored a conference that brought together scholars…
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Counseling the Communicatively Disabled and Their Families

A Manual for Clinicians

• By George H. Shames.

Published January 2006

Counseling the Communicatively Disabled and Their Families: A Manual for Clinicians, Second Edition, written by George H. Shames, emphasizes the development of specific interviewing and counseling skills for speech-language pathologists and audiologists, which is a requirement of ASHA's…
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Black Fathers

An Invisible Presence in America

• Edited by Michael E. Connor, and Joseph White.

Published January 2006

In the parlance of social psychology, social work, and urban social scientists, African American fathers have often been described as "absent," "missing," "non-residential," "non-custodial," "unavailable," "non-married," "irresponsible," and "immature." It is wondered why it is/was so difficult to…
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The Work and Family Handbook

Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives and Approaches

• Edited by Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Ellen Ernst Kossek and Stephen Sweet.

Published December 2005

The Work and Family Handbook is a comprehensive edited volume, which reviews a wide range of disciplinary perspectives across the social sciences on the study of work-family relationships, theory, and methods. The changing demographics of the labor force has resulted in an expanded awareness and…
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Always Separate, Always Connected

Independence and Interdependence in Cultural Contexts of Development

• By Catherine Raeff.

Published November 2005

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of theoretical and empirical scholarship on how issues of human separateness, or independence, and issues of human connectedness, or interdependence, are played out in diverse cultural contexts. Despite agreement on the value of understanding culture…
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Families With Futures

A Survey of Family Studies for the Twenty-First Century

• By Meg Wilkes Karraker, and Janet R. Grochowski.
• Edited by Meg Karraker, and Janet R. Grochowski.

Published November 2005

The new interdisciplinary textbook, Families With Futures, offers a fresh approach to the study of families in everyday life. Learners are presented with an opportunity to explore not only "what was" but "what could be" for today's families, through a positive prism--families as dynamic, evolving…
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Romance and Sex in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood

Risks and Opportunities

• Edited by Ann C. Crouter, and Alan Booth.

Published October 2005

In this volume, Romance and Sex in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: Risks and Opportunities, top scholars in the field of family research examine the nature and origin of adolescents’ contemporary patterns of sexual and romantic relationships, spanning such diverse topics as the…
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Handbook of Divorce and Relationship Dissolution

• Edited by Mark A. Fine, and John H. Harvey.

Published October 2005

This Handbook presents up-to-date scholarship on the causes and predictors, processes, and consequences of divorce and relationship dissolution. Featuring contributions from multiple disciplines, this Handbook reviews relationship termination, including variations depending on legal status, race/…
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Developmental Pathways Through Middle Childhood

Rethinking Contexts and Diversity as Resources

• Edited by Catherine R. Cooper, Cynthia T. Garc¡a Coll, W. Todd Bartko, Helen M. Davis and Celina Chatman.

Published June 2005

When can contexts and diversity be resources, rather than risks, for children's developmental pathways? Scholars, policy makers, and practitioners increasingly realize that middle childhood matters as a time when children's pathways diverge, as they meet new and overlapping contexts they must…
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