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The New American Grandparent

A Place in the Family, A Life Apart

By: Andrew CHERLIN,Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.

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The New American Grandparent

A Place in the Family, A Life Apart

By: Andrew CHERLIN,Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.

Two leading sociologists of the family examine the changing role of American grandparents--how they strive for both independence and family ties.

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Harvard University Press

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0674029488

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9780674029484

Divided Families

What Happens to Children when Parents Part

By: Frank F. Furstenberg,Andrew J. Cherlin

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Divided Families

What Happens to Children when Parents Part

By: Frank F. Furstenberg,Andrew J. Cherlin

Explores the effects of divorce on children and their parents.

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156

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Harvard University Press

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067465577X

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9780674655775

Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage

By: Andrew J. Cherlin

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With roller coaster changes in marriage and divorce rates apparently leveling off in the 1980s, Andrew Cherlin feels that the time is right for an overall assessment of marital trends. His graceful and informal book surveys and explains the latest research on marriage, divorce, and remarriage since World War II.Cherlin presents the facts about family change over the past thirty-five years and examines the reasons for the trends that emerge. He views the 1950s, when Americans were marrying and having children early and divorcing infrequently, as the aberration, and he discusses why this period was unusual. He also explores the causes and consequences of the dramatic changes since 1960--increases in divorce, remarriage, and cohabitation, decreases in fertility--that are altering the very definition of the family in our society. He concludes with a discussion of the increasing differences in the marital patterns of black and white families over the past few decades.

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172

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Harvard University Press

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0674029496

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9780674029491

The Changing American Family and Public Policy

By: Andrew J. Cherlin

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The Changing American Family and Public Policy

By: Andrew J. Cherlin

This book brings social science perspective to bear on family change and family policy; identifies the determinants of change and analyzes the role that government has played and can play in affecting the course of family life.

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282

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The Urban Insitute

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0877664218

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9780877664215

Labor's Love Lost

The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America

By: Andrew J. Cherlin

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Labor's Love Lost

The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America

By: Andrew J. Cherlin

Two generations ago, young men and women with only a high-school degree would have entered the plentiful industrial occupations which then sustained the middle-class ideal of a male-breadwinner family. Such jobs have all but vanished over the past forty years, and in their absence ever-growing numbers of young adults now hold precarious, low-paid jobs with few fringe benefits. Facing such insecure economic prospects, less-educated young adults are increasingly forgoing marriage and are having children within unstable cohabiting relationships. This has created a large marriage gap between them and their more affluent, college-educated peers. In Labor’s Love Lost, noted sociologist Andrew Cherlin offers a new historical assessment of the rise and fall of working-class families in America, demonstrating how momentous social and economic transformations have contributed to the collapse of this once-stable social class and what this seismic cultural shift means for the nation’s future. Drawing from more than a hundred years of census data, Cherlin documents how today’s marriage gap mirrors that of the Gilded Age of the late-nineteenth century, a time of high inequality much like our own. Cherlin demonstrates that the widespread prosperity of working-class families in the mid-twentieth century, when both income inequality and the marriage gap were low, is the true outlier in the history of the American family. In fact, changes in the economy, culture, and family formation in recent decades have been so great that Cherlin suggests that the working-class family pattern has largely disappeared. Labor's Love Lost shows that the primary problem of the fall of the working-class family from its mid-twentieth century peak is not that the male-breadwinner family has declined, but that nothing stable has replaced it. The breakdown of a stable family structure has serious consequences for low-income families, particularly for children, many of whom underperform in school, thereby reducing their future employment prospects and perpetuating an intergenerational cycle of economic disadvantage. To address this disparity, Cherlin recommends policies to foster educational opportunities for children and adolescents from disadvantaged families. He also stresses the need for labor market interventions, such as subsidizing low wages through tax credits and raising the minimum wage. Labor's Love Lost provides a compelling analysis of the historical dynamics and ramifications of the growing number of young adults disconnected from steady, decent-paying jobs and from marriage. Cherlin’s investigation of today’s “would-be working class” shines a much-needed spotlight on the struggling middle of our society in today’s new Gilded Age.

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273

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Russell Sage Foundation

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1610448448

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9781610448444

The Marriage-Go-Round

The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today

By: Andrew J. Cherlin

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The Marriage-Go-Round

The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today

By: Andrew J. Cherlin

In a landmark book that's "intriguing [and] provocative" and presents "an original thesis [to explain] this peculiar paradox—we idealize marriage and yet we’re so bad at it” (The New York Times). Andrew J. Cherlin's three decades of study have shown him that marriage in America is a social and political battlefield in a way that it isn’t in other developed countries. Americans marry and divorce more often and have more live-in partners than Europeans, and gay Americans have more interest in legalizing same-sex marriage. The difference comes from Americans’ embrace of two contradictory cultural ideals: marriage, a formal commitment to share one's life with another; and individualism, which emphasizes personal choice and self-development. Religion and law in America reinforce both of these behavioral poles, fueling turmoil in our family life and heated debate in our public life. Cherlin’s incisive diagnosis is an important contribution to the debate and points the way to slowing down the partnership merry-go-round.

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290

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Vintage

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0307773515

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9780307773517

Defying the Odds

The 2016 Elections and American Politics, Post 2018 Election Update

By: James W. Ceaser,Andrew E. Busch,John J. Pitney

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Defying the Odds

The 2016 Elections and American Politics, Post 2018 Election Update

By: James W. Ceaser,Andrew E. Busch,John J. Pitney

Now updated to include the 2018 midterms and previewing the coming 2020 election cycle, Defying the Odds provides the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the national election, including the presidential nomination process and election and congressional elections. With its keen insights into the issues and events that drove the 2016 election, Defying the Odds will be an invaluable resource for students and all political observers seeking to understand an election that was decades in the making and will continue to resonate throughout American politics for many years to come.

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249

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Rowman & Littlefield

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153812923X

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9781538129234

Latecomers

Children of Parents Over 35

By: Andrew L. Yarrow

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Latecomers

Children of Parents Over 35

By: Andrew L. Yarrow

Illuminated by real-life stories and anecdotes, Latecomers sensitively describes and explores what it means to be a child of older parents--in the early years, as an adolescent, and as an adult. A reporter for The New York Times, Yarrow draws from questionnaires and interviews with over 800 people whose parents were over 35 when they were born.

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266

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0029356857

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9780029356852

Crime and the Sacking of America

The Roots of Chaos

By: Andrew Peyton Thomas

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Crime and the Sacking of America

The Roots of Chaos

By: Andrew Peyton Thomas

Challenges Americans to understand and solve the violent crime problems in this country.

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410

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Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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0028811070

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9780028811079

The Marriage-Go-Round

The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today

By: Andrew J. Cherlin

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The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today

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Vintage

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0307773515

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Looseleaf for Public and Private Families: An Introduction

By: Andrew Cherlin

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Looseleaf for Public and Private Families: An Introduction

By: Andrew Cherlin

Public and Private Families: An Introduction, discusses the family in two senses: the private family, in which we live most of our personal lives, and the public family, in which we, as adults, deal with broader societal issues. The eighth edition of this program examines the history of families around the world while simultaneously introducing the most relevant topics in society such as same sex marriage, self-identification, and the globalization and modernization of families today. The Connect course for this offering includes SmartBook, an adaptive reading and study experience which guides students to master, recall, and apply key concepts while providing automatically-graded assessments. McGraw-Hill Connect® is a subscription-based learning service accessible online through your personal computer or tablet. Choose this option if your instructor will require Connect to be used in the course. Your subscription to Connect includes the following: • SmartBook® - an adaptive digital version of the course textbook that personalizes your reading experience based on how well you are learning the content. • Access to your instructor’s homework assignments, quizzes, syllabus, notes, reminders, and other important files for the course. • Progress dashboards that quickly show how you are performing on your assignments and tips for improvement. • The option to purchase (for a small fee) a print version of the book. This binder-ready, loose-leaf version includes free shipping. Complete system requirements to use Connect can be found here: http://www.mheducation.com/highered/platforms/connect/training-support-students.html

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McGraw-Hill Education

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125984532X

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9781259845321

LooseLeaf for Public and Private Families: An Introduction

By: Andrew J. Cherlin

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LooseLeaf for Public and Private Families: An Introduction

By: Andrew J. Cherlin

Public and Private Families: An Introduction discusses the family in two senses: the private family, in which we live most of our personal lives, and the public family, in which we, as adults, deal with broader societal issues. The eighth edition of this program examines the history of families around the world while simultaneously introducing the most relevant topics in society such as same sex marriage, self-identification, and the globalization and modernization of families today. The Connect course for this offering includes SmartBook, an adaptive reading and study experience which guides students to master, recall, and apply key concepts while providing automatically-graded assessments. McGraw-Hill Connect® is a subscription-based learning service accessible online through your personal computer or tablet. Choose this option if your instructor will require Connect to be used in the course. Your subscription to Connect includes the following: • SmartBook® - an adaptive digital version of the course textbook that personalizes your reading experience based on how well you are learning the content. • Access to your instructor’s homework assignments, quizzes, syllabus, notes, reminders, and other important files for the course. • Progress dashboards that quickly show how you are performing on your assignments and tips for improvement. • The option to purchase (for a small fee) a print version of the book. This binder-ready, loose-leaf version includes free shipping. Complete system requirements to use Connect can be found here: http://www.mheducation.com/highered/platforms/connect/training-support-students.html

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464

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McGraw-Hill Education

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1260240827

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9781260240825

Labor's Love Lost

The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America

By: Andrew J. Cherlin

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Labor's Love Lost

The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America

By: Andrew J. Cherlin

Labor's Love Lost offers a new historical assessment of the rise and fall of working-class families in America, demonstrating how momentous social and economic transformations have contributed to the collapse of this one-stable social class and what this seismic cultural shift means for the nation's future. Drawing from more than a hundred years of census data, noted sociologist Andrew Cherlin shows that the primary problem of the fall of the working-class family from its mid-twentieth century peak is not that the male-breadwinner family has declined, but that nothing stable has replaced it. The breakdown of a stable family structure has serious consequences for low-income families, particularly for children, many of whom underperform in school, thereby reducing their future employment prospects and perpetuating an intergenerational cycle of economic disadvantage. Cherlin's investigation of today's "would-be working class" shines a much-needed spotlight on the struggling middle of our society. -- from back cover.

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Russell Sage Foundation

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0871540304

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Book's by Andrew J. Cherlin

The New American Grandparent

The New American Grandparent

Divided Families

Divided Families

Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage

Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage

The Changing American Family and Public Policy

The Changing American Family and Public Policy

Labor's Love Lost

Labor's Love Lost

The Marriage-Go-Round

The Marriage-Go-Round

Defying the Odds

Defying the Odds

Latecomers

Latecomers

Crime and the Sacking of America

Crime and the Sacking of America

The Marriage-Go-Round

The Marriage-Go-Round

Looseleaf for Public and Private Families: An Introduction

Looseleaf for Public and Private Families: An Introduction

LooseLeaf for Public and Private Families: An Introduction

LooseLeaf for Public and Private Families: An Introduction

Labor's Love Lost

Labor's Love Lost

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