Assumptions about the family of the past pervade the expectations we bring to our personal interactions and shape the way we think about and study the family as a social institution. Most often, undergraduate courses in family sociology have a ?marriage and family? focus, which emphasizes the dynamics of interpersonal relations and contemporary fam
This book provides a fuller context for assessing the kinds of concerns that have dominated the family values debate—or, more broadly, the turn to family politics—of recent decades, by exploring the changes and continuities in key life stages in American families over time.
