Families: Joys, Conflicts, and Changes

Families: Joys, Conflicts, and Changes
ISBN-10
131725970X
ISBN-13
9781317259701
Series
Families
Category
Social Science
Pages
336
Language
English
Published
2015-12-03
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Alex Liazos

Description

Unlike other family textbooks that mostly emphasize conflicts and problems, this book also features the joys and pleasures of family living and its mutually nourishing qualities. Its perspective reflects polls, surveys, and student essays indicating that most people value their families. Families everywhere provide love, support, and sustenance to their members, but they do so in many different arrangements.Understanding the wide variety of families historically and across cultures gives the student a better basis for understanding how families change and a better grasp of more controversial changes such as the gradual acceptance by Westerners of same-sex marriage and child-rearing by single people. Liazos offers two poignant chapters not found in other texts. Family Living (Chapter Six) focuses on the social value of caregiving and family meals. Kin and Community (Chapter Seven) focuses on relationships among kin and the larger community.

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