【簡介】 Original essays that explore how families operate in everyday life Drawing on the latest social science research and clinical expertise, Families as They Really Are gets to the heart of what families are, how they work, and why they matter. These original essays by an interdisciplinary community of experts who study and work with families reframes the question about families from “are they breaking down?” to “where are they going, how, and why?” Now encompassing greater diversity in and within family structures, this thoroughly updated Third Edition features expanded coverage of gender, including nonbinary and trans experiences and perspectives; greater representation of families of color and LGBTQ families; and new pieces on the impact of the pandemic on families. 【目錄】 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) 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) 5. Racism, Family Structure, and Black Families (Deadric T. Williams, Caroline Sanner, Todd Jensen, and Laura Simon) Part Two: How Did We Get Here? 6. The Evolution of American Families (Stephanie Coontz) 7. American Childhood as a Social and Cultural Construct (Steven Mintz) 8. African Americans and the Birth of the Modern Marriage (Donna L. Franklin) 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) 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) 13. When LGBTQ People Become Parents (Abbie E. Goldberg) 14. Reflections on Race, Family, and Identity: Is There Anything New about Multiracialism Today? (Jenifer L. Bratter) 15. Queer Bat Signals: Families of Origin and Choice Under Social Distancing and Lockdown (Amy Brainer) Part Four: Intimacy in the Twenty-First Century 16. Why Is Everyone (Still) Afraid of Sex? (Nicholas Velotta, Pepper Schwartz) 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, Alison Ash) 19. Independent Women: Equality in African American Lesbian Relationships (Mignon R. Moore) Part Five: How Does Policy Link to Personal Lives? 20. Beyond Family Structure: Family Process Studies Help to Reframe Debates about What’s Good for Children (Philip A. Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan) 21. The Marriage Movement (Melanie Heath and Jennifer Randles) 22. The Case for Divorce (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, Barbara Risman) Part Six: How Parents and Kids Relate 25. This Is Your Job Now: Latina Mothers and Daughters and Family Work (Lorena Garcia) 26. Trans Kids and Their Families: From the Kitchen Table to the Culture Wars (Tey Meadow) 27. Beyond Sons and Daughters: Nonbinary Experiences with Family (Emily Via, Daniella Guerrero Rodriguez, Ni’Shele Jackson, Barbara J. Risman, William Scarborough) 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) 30. Parenting Adult Children in the Twenty-First Century (Joshua Coleman) 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) 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) 34. Queer(ing) Intimate Partner Violence Through Transgender Inclusion (Xavier Guadalupe-Diaz) 35. Mass Incarceration and Family Life (Bryan L. Sykes, Becky Pettit, Daniela Kaiser) Part Eight: Unfinished Gender Revolution 36. Why Can’t Anyone “Have It All”? The Colliding Worlds of Work and Caregiving (Kathleen Gerson) 37. When Men Stay Home: Household Labor in Female-Led Indian Migrant Families (Pallavi Banerjee) 38. Gender Inequality in the U.S. during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Allison Nicole Dunatchik and Jerry A. Jacobs) 39. The Power of Queer: How “Guy Moms” Challenge Heteronormative Assumptions about Mothering and Family (Raine Dozier) 40. Queering Family Sexual Violence (Elizabeth Whalley)