The changing faces of families

• Titel: The changing faces of families
• Titelzusatz: diverse familiy forms in various policy contexts
• Mitwirkende: Adler, Marina [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Lenz, Karl [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Marina A. Adler and Karl Lenz
• Verlagsort: London ; New York
• Verlag: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: x, 248 Seiten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Routledge studies in family sociology
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-032-04503-0
• ISBN: 978-1-032-04502-3
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1831300605

Abstract

"With a focus on nine different national contexts, this book explores contemporary family diversity. With attention to the different welfare states and cultures of care in each setting, it problematises the pre-eminence of research and policy centred on heteronormative families, showing the extent to which family diversity exists cross-nationally in relation to different gendered and "family-friendly" policies. Considering variations in family forms, including differences in the number and marital status of parents, their gender, sexual orientation and biological relationship to the children (adoption), multi-cultural families, and families created by technological assistance or surrogacy, it presents demographic information, alongside quantitative and qualitative research, across a number of advanced countries. A contribution to our understanding of the diversity of family forms, how diversity is lived in families, and what family diversity means in various international policy contexts The Changing Faces of Families will appeal to scholars with interests in the sociology of the family"--