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Communal Families focuses on the role definition of the family within the commune. Historic communal groups such as Shakers, Oneida, Amana, and the Mormons are investigated as are contemporary rural and urban communal groups such as twin Oaks, Jesus People USA, and the Hutterites.

Examines the reasons why children ultimately leave home to live on their own and how the pattern has changed throughout the 20th century.

Discourses on fatherhood often focus on minimal changes in men's participation in family-life and in so doing mask significant changes some men have made. In contrast, Dienhart's qualitative study of 18 shared parenting couples explores men's and women's resourcefulness as they deliberately co-create alternatives to traditional parenting patterns.

This book takes a multidisciplinary perspective, presenting a discussion of the cultural significance of the honeymoon.

Samuel Vuchinich assesses the implications of research on problem solving for family-based prevention and intervention programmes. He explores family conflicts, the nature of family problems, problems across the life cycle, and social constructions.

No More Kin examines extended kinship networks among African American, Chicano and Puerto-Rican families in the United States, and provides an integrated theoretical framework for examining how the simultaneity of gender, race and class oppression affects minority family organization.

The concept of time is central to the study of families and is used in different ways. Synthesizing different concepts into a broad theory of how families understand time, Daly examines time as a pervasive influence in the changing experiential world of families.

What progress have African-Americans made in corporate America? This book examines the evidence of studies on 200 black corporate managers and their families. Susan Toliver looks at changing gender dynamics within the families of black managers, changes in approaches to parenting, and issues of racial identity within corporations and the professional black community.

This volume is a comprehensive exploration of historical and contemporary patterns of parenting in black families. Based on interviews and survey data, African American Children focuses on black families of various social classes as well as a comparative sample of white families. It covers major areas of child socialization.

This work examines and redefines parenting roles by addressing such issues as: divorce and remarriage; gender roles; employment and child care; gay and lesbian parenting; changes in fathering; and family policies and policy needs.