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The Changing Faces of Families: Diverse Family Forms in Various Policy Contexts book cover

1st Edition

The Changing Faces of Families Diverse Family Forms in Various Policy Contexts

Edited By Marina A. Adler, Karl Lenz Copyright 2023
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

With a focus on nine different national contexts, this book explores contemporary family diversity. With attention to the different welfare states and cultures of care in each setting, it problematizes the pre-eminence of research and policy centered on heteronormative families, showing the extent to which family diversity exists cross-nationally in relation to different gendered and... Read more
  1. Beyond standard families in advanced countries - Marina A. Adler / Karl Lenz

  2. Diversity in Canadian Families: Choices, Constraints, and Social Policy Dimensions - Barbara A. Mitchell / Lun Li

  3. The (in)visibility of French family diversity - Anne-Laure Garcia

  4. German families: East -West differences in diversification - Karl Lenz / Tino Schlinzig

  5. Limited Family Diversity in Japan: A Legacy of Traditional Familism - Takashi Yamashita

  6. Lithuanian families: Living diversity in times of outdated policies - Aušra Maslauskaitė

  7. Family Diversity in Spain: A Portrait of Rapid Transformation - Gerardo Meil /Jesús Rogero-García / Vicente Díaz-Gandasegui

  8. Changes in Family Diversity in Sweden: Opportunities, constraints, and challenges - Barbara Hobson / Livia Sz. Oláh / Glenn Sandström

  9. Diversity in UK families: Liberalization of public attitudes and policies - Ursula Henz

  10. The complexities of Family diversity in the contemporary US - Marina A. Adler

Diversification in family forms in nine OECD countries - Challenges for policy and research – Marina A. Adler / Karl Lenz

Biography

Marina A. Adler is Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Public Health at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, US and the co-editor of Father Involvement in the Early Years: An International Comparison of Policy and Practice.

Karl Lenz is Professor of Microsociology at the TU Dresden, Germany and the co-editor of Father Involvement in the Early Years: An International Comparison of Policy and Practice.

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