Advisors and Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- About the set -- Introduction -- About the entry -- Using primary sources -- Chronology -- Concepts of family -- Marriage, partnership, and divorce -- Parenting and children -- Family life and family relationships -- Work and gender roles -- Health, housing, and family planning -- The family in literature and media -- The family in times of conflict and change -- Sources consulted -- Index.
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Chronology -- Concepts of Family -- Introduction to Concepts of Family -- The Family and Its Members -- Love and the Formations of Family -- Problems and Strengths of Single-Parent Families -- Myth of the Perfect Family -- Single Parents by Sex and Selected Characteristics -- Married-Couple Family Groups with Stay at Home Parents -- Households by Type: 1970-2003 -- Family Groups by Type and Selected Characteristics -- Manassas Changes Definition of Family -- 'Blended Families' and other Euphemisms -- Marriage, Partnership, and Divorce -- Introduction to Marriage, Partnership, and Divorce -- Caroline Gilman Recommends Wifely Submission -- Drunkard Attacks Wife -- Raziakov Family Ketubbah -- That Terrible Question -- An Opinion on Love Matches -- Why Divorce Is Bad -- Divorces Increase by Half -- Sharma v. Sharma -- Bargaining and Distribution in Marriage -- Defense of Marriage Act -- Declaration of Covenant Marriage -- Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage in the United States -- Marriage Protection Amendment -- Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act -- Just Whom Is This Divorce 'Good For?' -- Familymoons ... Are the New Honeymoons -- Parenting and Children -- Introduction to Parenting and Children -- Mothers Giving Babies to Nurse at Foundling Home -- The Education of Mothers -- Mother Spanking Her Children -- Illustration of a Social Worker Removing a Child from an Abusive Dwelling -- Necessity Is the Mother of Invention -- Advertisement for Hitching's Baby Cars -- No Creature in This World So Ignorantly Nurtured as the Average Baby -- Mothers Warned Against Neglect -- Correcting Child Vandalism -- Non-Custodial Mothers Developing Strategies of Support -- Dr. Spock's Last Interview -- The Uniform Adoption Act of 1994 -- Envisioning Fatherhood: A Social Psychological Perspective on Young Men without Kids -- Ranks of Latchkey Kids Approach Seven Million -- Happy Father's Day -- Out of Step and Having a Baby -- The New Red Diaper Babies -- ACLU Disappointed the Supreme Court Will Not Hear an Appeal in Case Challenging Florida's Anti-Gay Adoption Law -- Data on Marriage and Births Reflects the Political Divide -- Putting Families First -- Changin' in the Boys' Room -- The Seven Ages of an Only Child -- It Was a Selfish Decision but I Never Regretted It -- Let's Celebrate. There's Never Been a Better Time for Mothers -- They Can Go Home Again -- Family Life and Family Relationships -- Introduction to Family Life and Family Relationships -- Taking the Census -- We Invite Your Attention to Our Family Bible -- Family Life Among the Mormons -- Family Feud in the Mountains -- Mother, Sara, and the Baby -- The Family in Soviet Russia -- Not Mine, But Ours -- I Knew It! I'm Really a Nubian Princess (... Well, in a Previous Life) -- Two Heads Are Better than Three -- From the Age of Aquarius to the Age of Responsibility -- Case Study: The Young Carer -- As Parents Age, Baby Boomers Struggle to Cope -- My Family and Other Vehicles -- Siblings of Disabled Have Their Own Troubles -- Father Figures -- Work and Gender Roles -- Introduction to Work and Gender Roles -- Household Work -- Certificate of Indenture for Henry Barr -- The Influence of Women -- Testimony of Ann and Elizabeth Eggley, Child Mine Workers -- Married Women's Property Act of 1848 -- The Book of Household Management -- A Young Lady, of Good Family and Education, Desires an Engagement as Governess -- Reynolds v. United States -- Twenty-Six Hours a Day -- For the Benefit of the Girl about to Graduate -- Washing Day Reform -- The Degraded Status of Woman in the Bible -- A.D. 1915, with Puck's Apologies to the "Coming Woman" -- Homework Destroys Family Life -- Election Day! -- To Mothers--Our Duty -- Nursery for Field Working Mothers -- Unfair to Babies! -- Come to Denver -- If Union Families Don't Look for the Union Label, Who Will? -- Carmen Carter Remembers Turkey Farming -- Mother Superior -- Health, Housing, and Family Planning -- Introduction to Health, Housing, and Family Planning -- The Fruits of Intemperance -- Family Temperance Pledge -- Buying the Family a Home -- The Shadow of Danger -- Your Family Needs Protection Against Syphilis -- Tuberculosis: Don't Kiss Me! -- Low Rent Homes for Low Income Families -- New York Suburb of Levittown -- Please Stop at Two -- So Lucky to Give Birth in England -- Orphaned by AIDS -- Use of Contraception and Use of Family Planning Services in the United States: 1982-2002 -- One-Child Policy in China -- A Surrogate Dries Her Tears -- Why Stop? -- Babies on Ice -- Wanted: A Few Good Sperm -- By Surmounting a Few Production Humps, Camel Milk Could Bring in Billions -- Our Flesh and Blood -- The Family in Literature and Media -- Introduction to the Family in Literature and Media -- Pride and Prejudice -- In the Garret -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -- Family Listening to News on the Radio -- New Jersey Seashore -- Family Portrait of Ozzie and Harriet -- Black, Brown, and Beige -- In Today's TV Families, Who Knows Best? -- Address to the Commonwealth Club of California -- Dan Quayle Was Right -- Simpsons Creator on Poking Fun -- MediaQuotient: National Survey of Family Media Habits, Knowledge, and Attitudes -- My Family Will Swoosh for Nike -- A Family Affair -- The Internet and the Family 2000: The View from Parents--The View from Kids -- That Loveable Sitcom Dad Who Likes to Nibble Bats -- The Family Movie Act of 2004 -- Car in Every Garage; Sitcom in Every Cul-de-Sac -- The Family in Times of Conflict and Change -- Introduction to The Family in Times of Conflict and Change -- A Slave Auction in South Carolina -- A Family Divided -- When I Journeyed from America -- The Family War Effort -- There's Cheer in the Pictures from Home -- Learn to Speak, Read, and Write the Language of Your Children -- A Slavery Family in North Carolina -- Diary of the Great Deportation -- Service on the Homefront -- Plant a Victory Garden -- Family in Fallout Shelter -- Life's Biggest Lemon -- Immigrants Shunning the Idea of Assimilation -- Rwanda: Is It Safe to Come Home Yet? -- Revisiting an Immigrant Family.
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This volume of primary source documents focuses on the role of the family in society. It contains approximately 175 full and excerpted documents--speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art--as well as overview information that places each document in context. Entries are organized into chapters that feature a general overview of the chapter's subtopic. Also included is an introduction to the topic, a chronology of major events associated with the topic, and a general index.