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| Preface | p. viii |
| Introduction | |
| Public and Private Families | p. 3 |
| The Family in Trouble: Since When? For Whom? | p. 5 |
| From Role to Self: The Emergence of Androgynous Love in the 20th Century | p. 16 |
| The History of the Family | p. 31 |
| What's Love Got to Do with It? A Brief History of Marriage | p. 32 |
| Growing Up Is Harder to Do | p. 38 |
| Gender, Class... MORE | |
| Gender and Families | p. 47 |
| Doing Gender | p. 49 |
| Fathers and Emotional Responsibility | p. 59 |
| Social Class and Families | p. 70 |
| Ain't No Middle Class | p. 72 |
| Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families | p. 85 |
| Race, Ethnicity, and Families | p. 108 |
| "I'm Here, but I'm There": The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood | p. 110 |
| Breaking the Last Taboo: Interracial Marriage in America | p. 124 |
| Sexuality, Partnership, and Marriage | |
| Sexualities | p. 133 |
| Sexual Desire and Gender | p. 134 |
| Living Apart Together: A New Family Form | p. 142 |
| Cohabitation and Marriage | p. 155 |
| "Everything's There Except Money": How Money Shapes Decisions to Marry among Cohabitors | p. 157 |
| Unmarried with Children | p. 169 |
| Work and Families | p. 176 |
| The Work-Home Crunch | p. 178 |
| Joey's Problem: Nancy and Evan Holt | p. 186 |
| Links across the Generations | |
| Children and Parents | p. 203 |
| Religion and the Domestication of Men | p. 204 |
| Gay Parenthood and the Decline of Paternity as we Knew It | p. 208 |
| Older People and their Families | p. 223 |
| Beyond the Nuclear Family: The Increasing Importance of Multigenerational Bonds | p. 225 |
| Men and Women: Together and Apart in the Later Years | p. 236 |
| Conflict, Disruption, and Reconstitution | |
| Domestic Violence | p. 261 |
| Control and Violence in Intimate Relationships | p. 263 |
| Controversies Surrounding Mandatory Arrest Policies and the Police Response to Intimate Partner Violence | p. 275 |
| Divorce | p. 282 |
| Life without Father: What Happens to the Children? | p. 283 |
| Children's Adjustment Following Divorce: Risk and Resilience Perspectives | p. 287 |
| StepFamilies | p. 295 |
| The Modern American Stepfamily: Problems and Possibilities | p. 297 |
| Beyond the Two-Parent Family: How Teenagers Fare in Cohabiting Couple and Blended Families | p. 308 |
| Family and Society | |
| The Family, The State, and Social Policy | p. 317 |
| American Dream: Money: Milwaukee, Summer 1999 | p. 319 |
| Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Parenting, and America's Children | p. 327 |
| References | p. 339 |
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