Families as They Really Are

Name: Families as They Really Are
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ISBN: 9781324059929

by Virginia E. Rutter, Kristi Williams, Barbara J. Risman

3rd Edition

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Print ISBN	9781324059929
eText ISBN	9781324071112
Publisher	W. W. Norton & Company
Publishing Year	2024
Edition	3rd Edition
Language	English
Pages	800

The textbook Families as They Really Are, 3rd Edition, edited by Virginia E. Rutter, Kristi Williams, and Barbara J. Risman, provides an empirical examination of contemporary American family structures. Published by W. W. Norton & Company, the text reframes debates from whether families are breaking down to where they are going, how, and why.

The content spans broad thematic developments. Early sections detail how social science research establishes facts, evaluates causal relationships, and analyzes Black family structures. Subsequent chapters trace historical developments in childhood and labor unions before examining diverse arrangements including stepfamilies, childfree households, LGBTQ parenting, and 21st-century intimacy.

This edition features expanded coverage of gender, including nonbinary and transgender experiences, as well as new chapters evaluating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on family life. Written by an interdisciplinary group of scholars, the 800-page volume provides intended analytical support for undergraduate readers.

Chapter Part One: How Do We Know What We Know?
Chapter 1: This We Know: Things Change: An Introduction (Virginia E. Rutter and Kristi Williams)
Chapter 2: How Do We Tell What’s True? (Philip N. Cohen)
Chapter 3: When Is a Relationship between Facts a Causal One? (Philip A. Cowan)
Chapter 4: Uncovering Hidden Facts that Matter in Interpreting Individuals' Behaviors: An Ethnographic Lens (Linda M. Burton)
Chapter 5: Racism, Family Structure, and Black Families (Deadric T. Williams, Caroline Sanner, Todd Jensen, and Laura Simon)
Chapter Part Two: How Did We Get Here?
Chapter 6: The Evolution of American Families (Stephanie Coontz)
Chapter 7: American Childhood as a Social and Cultural Construct (Steven Mintz)
Chapter 8: African Americans and the Birth of the Modern Marriage (Donna L. Franklin)
Chapter 9: Change That Counts: The Evolution of Americans’ Definitions of Family (Claudia Geist, Catherine Bolzendahl, Lala Carr Steelman, and Brian Powell)
Chapter 10: Labor Unions and Families: A Very Brief History (Shawn Fremstad)
Chapter Part Three: What Do We Talk about When We Talk about Diversity of Family Forms?
Chapter 11: Childfree Families (Amy Blackstone, Brittany Stahnke, and Amy Greenleaf)
Chapter 12: Stepfamilies as They Really Are (Lawrence Ganong, Marilyn Coleman, and Caroline Sanner)
Chapter 13: When LGBTQ People Become Parents (Abbie E. Goldberg)
Chapter 14: Reﬂections on Race, Family, and Identity: Is There Anything New about Multiracialism Today? (Jenifer L. Bratter)
Chapter 15: Queer Bat Signals: Families of Origin and Choice Under Social Distancing and Lockdown (Amy Brainer)
Chapter Part Four: Intimacy in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 16: Why Is Everyone (Still) Afraid of Sex? (Nicholas Velotta, Pepper Schwartz)
Chapter 17: Love (and Lust) in the Age of Viruses: Sexual Health and Relationships (Adina Nack)
Chapter 18: Orgasms in College Hookups and Relationships (Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Paula England, Alison Ash)
Chapter 19: Independent Women: Equality in African American Lesbian Relationships (Mignon R. Moore)
Chapter Part Five: How Does Policy Link to Personal Lives?
Chapter 20: Beyond Family Structure: Family Process Studies Help to Reframe Debates about What’s Good for Children (Philip A. Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan)
Chapter 21: The Marriage Movement (Melanie Heath and Jennifer Randles)
Chapter 22: The Case for Divorce (Virginia E. Rutter)
Chapter 23: Family Structure, Race, and Child Well-Being (Christina J. Cross)
Chapter 24: The New (Post-COVID) Normal? Workplace Flexibility Matters (Marni Fritz, Sejin Um, Barbara Risman)
Chapter Part Six: How Parents and Kids Relate
Chapter 25: This Is Your Job Now: Latina Mothers and Daughters and Family Work (Lorena Garcia)
Chapter 26: Trans Kids and Their Families: From the Kitchen Table to the Culture Wars (Tey Meadow)
Chapter 27: Beyond Sons and Daughters: Nonbinary Experiences with Family (Emily Via, Daniella Guerrero Rodriguez, Ni’Shele Jackson, Barbara J. Risman, William Scarborough)
Chapter 28: Adoptive Parents Raising Neoethnics and Demonstrating Whose Rights Matter (Pamela Anne Quiroz)
Chapter 29: Parents as Pawns: Intersex, Medical Experts, and Questionable Consent (Georgiann Davis)
Chapter 30: Parenting Adult Children in the Twenty-First Century (Joshua Coleman)
Chapter Part Seven: Leveling the Playing Field
Chapter 31: Student Loans, Families, and the Unequal Transition to Adulthood (Arielle Kuperberg and Joan Maya Mazelis)
Chapter 32: Sí Puedes: Latinx Families and Higher Education (Patricia Sánchez-Connally)
Chapter 33: “Between a Rock and a Hard Place”: Undocumented Immigrants and Mixed-Status Families Negotiating Migration Returns to Visit Ill and Dying Family Members (Cassaundra Rodriguez)
Chapter 34: Queer(ing) Intimate Partner Violence Through Transgender Inclusion (Xavier Guadalupe-Diaz)
Chapter 35: Mass Incarceration and Family Life (Bryan L. Sykes, Becky Pettit, Daniela Kaiser)
Chapter Part Eight: Unfinished Gender Revolution
Chapter 36: Why Can’t Anyone “Have It All”? The Colliding Worlds of Work and Caregiving (Kathleen Gerson)
Chapter 37: When Men Stay Home: Household Labor in Female-Led Indian Migrant Families (Pallavi Banerjee)
Chapter 38: Gender Inequality in the U.S. during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Allison Nicole Dunatchik and Jerry A. Jacobs)
Chapter 39: The Power of Queer: How “Guy Moms” Challenge Heteronormative Assumptions about Mothering and Family (Raine Dozier)
Chapter 40: Queering Family Sexual Violence (Elizabeth Whalley)