Overview
Updated edition of a classic text
Comprehensive survey and synthesis of knowledge about families
Designed as a primary graduate text on social science knowledge on families
Increased interdisciplinary focus
Chapter authors are noted authorities across a range of disciplines
Focuses on diverse family forms
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Table of contents (36 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical and Methodolocal Issues
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Front Matter
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Relationships, Processes, and Roles in Families
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Keywords
- Demography of Families
- Feminism and Families
- LGBT families
- Latino families
- cohabitation
- crisis theory
- emerging adults
- family diversity
- family life education
- family therapy
- family violence
- feminism
- gay marriage
- health institutions
- marriage
- parent-adolescent relationships
- parent-child relationships
- qualitative family research
- quantitative methodology for family research
- remarriage
- stepfamilies
- textbook
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Gary W. Peterson is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Studies and Social Work at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. His areas of research and scholarly expertise are adolescent development within the context of families, parent-child relationships, and family theory. Currently, he is pursuing these areas of inquiry cross-culturally within samples of adolescents from the Peoples’ Republic of China, Russia, India, Kenya, Mexico, Chile, and the U.S. Previous research areas have included public health issues in populations of Mexican-American youth as well as influences on the life plans of low-income, rural youth from Appalachian areas of the U.S. He is a co-editor of the Handbook of Marriage and the Family (2nd Ed.) and Adolescents in Families, Parent-Youth Relations: Cultural And Cross-cultural Perspectives, and Pioneering Paths in the Study of Families: The Lives and Careers of Family Scholars. Dr. Peterson is former editor of the journal Marriage and Family Review and was named a Fellow of the National Council on Family Relations in 2006. Research and scholarly articles have appeared in such publications as Journal of Marriage and the Family, Family Relations, Journal of Adolescent Research, Journal of Research on Adolescence, Youth and Society, Family Process, Sociological Inquiry, and Family Issues. Dr. Peterson is Editor or Co-Editor of books on fatherhood, cross-national parent-child relations, and family theory. He is a chapter contributor to several edited collections on such topics as parental stress, gender in the parent-child relationship, a life course perspective on parent-child relationships, and prevention programs for parent-child/parent-adolescent relationships. Dr. Peterson has been a guest editor for special issues of several research journals and has been a member of the Board of Directors for the National Council on Family Relations.
Kevin R. Bush is an Associate Professor of Family Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His research interests focus on child and adolescent development in the contexts of family and culture including academic achievement, self-concept, self-efficacy, as well as internalizing and externalizing issues. He has conducted studies with US (Appalachian, African American, Asian American, European American and Latino) and international (e.g., Chinese, Columbian, Mexican, South Korean, and Russian) samples of children, adolescents and parents. His work has been published in several scholarly journals, including Child Development, Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Adolescent Research, Journal of Family Psychology, Sociological Inquiry, Journal of Family Economic Issues, Marriage and Family Review, and Psychology in the Schools. Dr. Bush also has contributed several chapters to edited collections on such topics as adaptation among immigrant families, family influences on childhood development, parenting and adolescents, family relationships and gender roles in Appalachia, as well as gender and the parent-child relationship.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Marriage and the Family
Editors: Gary W. Peterson, Kevin R. Bush
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3987-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-3986-8Published: 14 September 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-7876-9Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-3987-5Published: 14 September 2012
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: XIV, 914
Topics: Family, Psychology Research, Social Work