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- catalog abstract "Family historian Stephanie Coontz offers a guide to the causes and consequences of today's family trends. Meticulously researched and carefully balanced, The Way We Really Are demonstrates why a historically informed perspective on changing family roles and arrangements can be as helpful in sorting through many family dilemmas as going into therapy - and much more helpful than listening to today's political debates. Coontz argues that although we can draw some lessons. From the past about how to strengthen families, we must face the reality that mothers are going to remain in the workplace, family diversity is here to stay, and the nuclear family can no longer handle all the responsibilities of elder care and child rearing. She explains how economic trends, changes in adult-teen relations, declining dependence of women on marriage, and new roles for men affect the dynamics of family life. Some problems associated with these changes, Coontz explains, come from economic and cultural forces beyond the family; others exist not because our families have changed too much but because our institutions and values haven't changed enough. But there is good news too: research shows that child care does not set children back, working mothers benefit their children by being positive role models, many fathers have become more involved in family life, and children of either sex can be raised successfully in. Single-parent homes or stepfamilies. Every kind of family, Coontz shows, has strengths that can be fostered and vulnerabilities to be avoided. Stepfamilies, dual-earner couples, single-parent families, and divorced but cooperative parents must function in different ways, but almost every family can be helped to function better. And no family can raise children successfully today without the expansion of economic, cultural, and social support systems that modern parents. So desperately need.".
- catalog contributor b10235884.
- catalog coverage "United States Social conditions 1980-".
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Coontz explains, come from economic and cultural forces beyond the family; others exist not because our families have changed too much but because our institutions and values haven't changed enough. But there is good news too: research shows that child care does not set children back, working mothers benefit their children by being positive role models, many fathers have become more involved in family life, and children of either sex can be raised successfully in.".
- catalog description "Family historian Stephanie Coontz offers a guide to the causes and consequences of today's family trends. Meticulously researched and carefully balanced, The Way We Really Are demonstrates why a historically informed perspective on changing family roles and arrangements can be as helpful in sorting through many family dilemmas as going into therapy - and much more helpful than listening to today's political debates. Coontz argues that although we can draw some lessons.".
- catalog description "From the past about how to strengthen families, we must face the reality that mothers are going to remain in the workplace, family diversity is here to stay, and the nuclear family can no longer handle all the responsibilities of elder care and child rearing. She explains how economic trends, changes in adult-teen relations, declining dependence of women on marriage, and new roles for men affect the dynamics of family life. Some problems associated with these changes,".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-227) and index.".
- catalog description "Single-parent homes or stepfamilies. Every kind of family, Coontz shows, has strengths that can be fostered and vulnerabilities to be avoided. Stepfamilies, dual-earner couples, single-parent families, and divorced but cooperative parents must function in different ways, but almost every family can be helped to function better. And no family can raise children successfully today without the expansion of economic, cultural, and social support systems that modern parents.".
- catalog description "So desperately need.".
- catalog description "ch. 1. Getting past the sound bites: how history and sociology can help today's families -- ch. 2. What we really miss about the 1950s -- ch. 3. Why working mothers are here to stay -- ch. 4. Future of marriage -- ch. 5. Putting divorce in perspective -- ch. 6. How holding on to tradition sets families back -- ch. 7. Looking for someone to blame: families and economic change -- ch. 8. How ignoring historical and societal change puts kids at risk -- ch. 9. Working with what we've got: the strengths and vulnerabilities of today's families.".
- catalog extent "vi, 238 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Way we really are.".
- catalog identifier "0465077870 (cloth)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Way we really are.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : BasicBooks,".
- catalog relation "Way we really are.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social conditions 1980-".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "306.85/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Families United States.".
- catalog subject "HQ535 .C644 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "ch. 1. Getting past the sound bites: how history and sociology can help today's families -- ch. 2. What we really miss about the 1950s -- ch. 3. Why working mothers are here to stay -- ch. 4. Future of marriage -- ch. 5. Putting divorce in perspective -- ch. 6. How holding on to tradition sets families back -- ch. 7. Looking for someone to blame: families and economic change -- ch. 8. How ignoring historical and societal change puts kids at risk -- ch. 9. Working with what we've got: the strengths and vulnerabilities of today's families.".
- catalog title "The way we really are : coming to terms with America's changing families / Stephanie Coontz.".
- catalog type "text".