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Part one: How do we know what we know? 1. This we know: things change: an introduction / Virginia E. Rutter and Kristi Williams -- 2. How do we tell what's true? / Philip N. Cohen -- In other words: neighborhood social cohesion not in decline, but concerning disparities persist / Kira England -- 3. When is a relationship between facts a causal one? / Philip A. Cowan -- 4. Uncovering hidden facts that matter in interpreting individuals' behaviors: an ethnographic lens / Linda M. Burton -- In other words: the stuff of holidays: how holiday objects tell a sociological story about today's families / Michelle Janning -- 5. Racism, family structure, and black families / Deadric T. Williams, Caroline Sanner, Todd Jensen, and Laura Simon -- In other words: the Moynihan report, then and now / William H. Chafe -- Part two: How did we get here? 6. The evolution of American families / Stephanie Coontz -- In other words: family diversity is the new normal for America's children / Philip N. Cohen -- 7. American childhood as a social and cultural construct / Steven Mintz -- In other words: random families: genetic strangers, sperm donor siblings, and the creation of new kin / Rosanna Hertz and Barbara Risman -- 8. African Americans and the birth of the modern marriage / Donna L. Franklin -- In other words: people are not as consistent in their social ideologies as we think: changing views on gender and race, 1977-2018 / William J. Scarborough and Joanna R. Pepin -- 9. Change that counts: the evolution of Americans' definitions of family / Claudia Geist, Catherine Bolzendahl, Lala Carr Steelman, and Brian Powell -- 10. Labor unions and families, a very brief history / Shawn Fremstad -- In other words: from the folks who brought you the weekend: what unions do for women / Ruth Milkman -- Part three: What do we talk about when we talk about diversity of family forms? 11. Childfree families / Amy Blackstone, Brittany Stahnke, and Amy Greenleaf -- 12. Stepfamilies as they really are / Lawrence Ganong, Marilyn Coleman, and Caroline Sanner -- In other words: from countercultural trend to strategy for the financially insecure: premarital cohabitation and premarital cohabitors, 1956-2015 / Arielle Kuperberg -- 13. When LGBTQ people become parents / Abbie E. Goldberg -- Reflections on race, family, and identity: is there anything new about multiracialism today? / Jenifer L. Bratter -- In other words: dating partners don't always prefer "their own kind": some multiracial daters get bonus points in the dating game / Celeste Curington, Ken-Hou Lin, and Jennifer Lundquist -- 15. Queer bat signals: families of origin and choice under social distancing and lockdown / Amy Brainer -- In other words: still being left behind: the intimate lives of queer disabled people / Alan Martino -- Part four: intimacy in the twenty-first century. Why is everyone (still) afraid of sex? / Nicholas Velotta and Pepper Schwartz -- In other words: How you talk with your child about sex matters / Shelby Astle -- In other words: women who cheat on their romantic partners: an interview with Alicia Walker / Arielle Kuperberg -- 17. Love (and lust) in the age of viruses: sexual health and relationships / Adina Nack -- 18. Orgasms in college hookups and relationships / Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Paula England, and Alison Ash -- In other words: maintaining the gender gap in orgasms takes work / Nicole Andrejek -- In other words: the date's not dead after all: new finding on hooking up, dating, and forming romantic relationships in college / Arielle Kuperberg and Joseph E. Padgett -- 19. Independent women: equality in African American lesbian relationships / Mignon R. Moore -- In other words: what is friendship? Learning from asexual and aromantic perspectives / Emily Fox and Canton Winer -- Part five: how does policy link to personal lives? 20. Beyond family sturcture: family process studies help to reframe debates about what's good for children / Philip A. Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan -- In other words: Raising a village: identifying social supports for all kinds of families / Caitlyn Collins -- 21. The marriage movement / Melanie Heath and Jennifer Randles -- In other words: what has the COVID-19 pandemic meant for health disparities for single compared with married adults? / Mieke Beth Thomeer -- 22. The case for divorce / Virginia E. Rutter -- In other words: divorce anxiety? For sexual minority young adults, not so much / Aaron Hoy, Jori Adrianna Nkwenti, and Sachita Pokhrel -- In other words: cohabitation no longer predicts divorce-and possibly never did: new research by senior CCF scholar Arielle Kuperberg / Virginia E. Rutter -- 23. Family structure, race, and child well-being / Christina J. Cross -- 24. The new (post-COVID) normal? Workplace flexibility matters / Marni Fritz, Sejin Um, and Barbara Risman -- In other words: CCF research brief: really? Work lowers people's stress levels / Sarah Damaske -- Part six: How parents and kids relate. 25. "This is your job now": Latina mothers and daughters and family work / Lorena Garcia -- In other words: mothering in sanctuary / Sarah Bruhn -- 26. Trans kids and their families: from the kitchen table to the culture wars / Tey Meadow -- 27. Beyond sons and daughters: nonbinary experience with family / Emily Via, Daniela Guerrero Rodriguez, Ni'Shele Jackson, Barbara J. Risman, and William Scarborough -- In other words: when parents show up to support their LGBTQ adult children / Amy L. Stone -- 28. Adoptive parents raising neoethnics and demonstrating whose rights matter / Pamela Anne Quiroz -- 29. Parents as pawns: intersex, medical experts, and questionable consent / Georgiann Davis -- In other words: the messages African American mothers and fathers give adolescents about race are shaped by their own experiences with racial discrimination and their observations and fears of racial discrimination / Kathleen Holloway and Fatima Varner -- In other words: mothering while Black / Dawn Marie Dow -- 30. Parenting adult children in the twenty-first century / Joshua Coleman -- In other words: keeping ties with problematic parents / Emma Bosley-Smith and Rin Reczek -- Part seven: Leveling the playing field. 31. Student loans, families, and the unequal transition to adulthood / Arielle Kuperberg and Joan Maya Mazelis -- 32. Sí puedes: Latinx families and higher education / Patricia Sánchez-Connally -- In other words: centering student voices provides cautious optimism about the future of racial segregation / Chantal A. Hailey -- 33. Between a rock and a hard place: undocumented immigrants and mixed-status families negotiating migration returns to visit ill and dying family members / Cassaundra Rodriguez -- In other words: how immigration status shapes family negotiations / Vanessa Delgado -- 34. Queer(ing) intimate partner violence through transgender inclusion / Xavier Guadalupe-Diaz -- In other words: understanding black queer male survivors' experiences of sexual assault / Doug Meyer -- 35. Mass incarceration and family life / Bryan L. Sykes, Becky Pettit, and Daniela Kaiser -- Part eight: unfinished gender revolution. 36. Why can't anyone "have it all?" The colliding worlds of work and caregiving / Kathleen Gerson -- In other words: mine and yours, our ours: are all egalitarian relationships equal? / Daniel L. Carson -- 37. When men stay home: household labor in female-led Indian migrant families / Pallavi Banerjee -- In other words: more dads are home taking care of children than ever before--are views about gender and work changing? / Arielle Kuperberg and Pamela Stone -- 38. Gender inequality in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic / Allison Nicole Dunatchik and Jerry A. Jacobs -- In other words: the choice to conceive, LGBTQ families, and COVID-19 / Penny Harvey -- 39. The power of queer: how "guy moms" challenge heteronormative assumptions about mothering and family / Raine Dozier -- In other words: not just kid stuff: becoming gendered / Heidi M. Gansen and Karin A. Martin -- 40. Queering family sexual violence / Elizabeth Whalley |
