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Continuity and Change in the American Family engages students with issues they see every day in the news, providing them with a comprehensive description of the social demography of the American family. Understanding ever-changing family systems and patterns requires taking the pulse of contemporary family life from time to time. This book paints a portrait of family continuity and change in the later half of the 20th century, with a focus on data from the 1970’s to present. The authors explore such topics as the growth in cohabitation, changes in childbearing, and how these trends affect family life. Other topics include the changing lives of single mothers, fathers, and grandparents and increasing economic disparities among families; child care and child well-being; and combining paid work and family. The authors are talented writers who bring considerable professional and scholarly background to bear in illuminating this topic in a thoughtful yet lively presentation.
Child Care
Child Care
In December 1992, Americans watched in disgust as David and Sharon Schoo were arrested when they returned home from a 10-day trip to sunny Acapulco. Their crime? Leaving their daughters, Diana, age 4, and Nicole, age 9, to spend Christmas in snowy Chicago alone, without adult supervision. Then in 1997, America was riveted to the “British nanny trial”—the case of Louise Woodward, an au pair accused of killing 8-month-old Matthew Eappen while he was under her care. These two cases and others like them have led mothers and fathers, researchers, policy makers, and concerned citizens to ask, Who is caring for America's children?
Many of the newspaper articles written about child care in the 1980s were also sensationalized accounts of the maltreatment of ...
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