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

Social Change and Families

Chapter Outline

Looking Forward

Two Fundamental Changes

The Lessened Economic Dependence of Women

The Weakening of Marriage

The Emergence of Created Kinship

Choosing One's Kin

The Feminization of Kinship

Social Change and the Public Family: The Elderly

A Success Story

The Calm before the Storm

Social Change and the Public Family: Children

The Nonpoor

The Poor

What to Do?

Encouraging Two-Parent Families

Assisting Single-Parent Families

Assisting All Families

Social Change and the Private Family

The Deregulation of Intimate Unions

Excessive Individualism?

Sharing the Cost of Stability

A Summing Up

Looking Back

Thinking about Families

Families on the Internet

Boxed Features

families in other cultures: World Revolution and Family Patterns

families and public policy: Fragile Families