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Public and Private Families: An Introduction, 3/e
Andrew J. Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University

Public and Private Families

Preview Questions

The following questions will be addressed in this chapter.

1.

How do Americans feel about marriage and the family?

2.

What do families do that is important for society? What do families do that is important for the individuals in them?

3.

What are the grounds for being optimistic or pessimistic about the state of the family?

4.

How do sociologists go about studying the family?

5.

What are the leading theoretical approaches to studying the family?