Looking Forward What Are Parents Supposed to Do for Children? Socialization as Support and Control Socialization and Ethnicity Socialization and Social Class Social Class and Parental Values Historical Trends in Social
Class Values Socialization and Gender What's Important? What Difference Do Fathers Make? What Might Prevent Parents from Doing What They Are Supposed to Do? Unemployment and Poverty Unemployment Poverty Divorce and Remarriage Single Parenthood Nonparental Childcare Lesbian and Gay Parenthood Questions Raised by Researchers Studies of Children in Gay and Lesbian Families Tentative Conclusions The Well-Being of American Children Compared with When? Which Children? Children by Socioeconomic Status Children by Race and Ethnicity A Summing Up Poor and Wealthy Children Children in the Middle Looking Back Thinking about Families Key Terms Families on the Internet Boxed Features families and public policy: Elián,
the Troxels, and Parents' Rights how do sociologists know what they know? Measuring the Well-Being of Children families in other cultures:
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