Contemporary Parenting and Parenthood: From News Headlines to New Research
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Michelle Y. Janning. Contemporary Parenting and Parenthood: From News Headlines to New Research. Praeger, 2018. ABC-CLIO, publisher.abc-clio.com/9781440855931.
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Michelle Y. Janning. (2018). Contemporary Parenting and Parenthood: From News Headlines to New Research. Retrieved from http://publisher.abc-clio.com/9781440855931
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Headlines from news sources are combined with the latest and best social science research to offer scholars, practitioners, and parents a much-needed source for understanding contemporary American parenthood.
• Includes up-to-date research on parenting topics covered in news stories• Incorporates the expertise of editor Michelle Janning, an award-winning teacher and leader in national organizations dedicated to family studies
• Helps to clarify parenting debates through sociological inquiry, instead of giving advice on how to parent
• Serves multiple audiences, including students and practitioners in professions working with parent-child relationships, scholars looking for the best new research in the field of parenting and parenthood, and parents who want to understand the larger context in which they operate on a daily basis
• Offers a range of viewpoints on parenting issues in a clearly organized format
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Table of Contents
Contemporary Parenting and Parenthood: From News Headlines to New Research
Author(s): Michelle Y. JanningContributors: Janning, Michelle;Abstract:Headlines from news sources are combined with the latest and best social science research to offer scholars, practitioners, and parents a much-needed source for understanding contemporary American parenthood.
• Includes up-to-date research on parenting topics covered in news stories• Incorporates the expertise of editor Michelle Janning, an award-winning teacher and leader in national organizations dedicated to family studies
• Helps to clarify parenting debates through sociological inquiry, instead of giving advice on how to parent
• Serves multiple audiences, including students and practitioners in professions working with parent-child relationships, scholars looking for the best new research in the field of parenting and parenthood, and parents who want to understand the larger context in which they operate on a daily basis
• Offers a range of viewpoints on parenting issues in a clearly organized format
Editor(s): Janning, Michelle;SortTitle: contemporary parenting and parenthood: from news headlines to new researchAuthor Info:Michelle Y. JanningeditorMichelle Y. Janning, PhD, is professor of sociology at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and board member of the Council on Contemporary Families. She is author of The Stuff of Family Life: How Our Homes Reflect Our Lives. eISBN-13: 9781440855931Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440855931.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440855924Imprint: PraegerPages: 368Publication Date: 20181130- Cover Cover11
- Title iii4
- Copyright iv5
- Contents vii8
- Acknowledgments ix10
- Introduction xi12
- Part 1: Changing Patterns in Contemporary Parenting and Parenthood 118
- Introduction: Changing Patterns in Contemporary Parenting and Parenthood 118
- Chapter 1: Helicopter Parents: A New Moral Panic? 320
- Chapter 2: World’s Okayest Mom: The Adaptive Management Parent 3148
- Chapter 3: The Changing Landscape of Parent–Adult Child Relations 5168
- The Downside 5370
- The American Parent 5471
- Conflict in Today’s Families 5572
- Boundaries and Enmeshment 5572
- “My Therapist Thinks you Suck”: Psychotherapy and the Curated Childhood 5774
- Aging Parents, Gray Divorces, Later Remarriages 5976
- The Role of Technology 6077
- E-mail, Texting, and the Presentation of Self in the Family 6178
- New Rules 6279
- References 6380
- Chapter 4: Parenthood in the Age of Apps and Mommy Blogs: Technology and Digital Culture in Parent–Child Relations 6784
- Setting the Stage: Competing News Headlines 6885
- What Counts as Technology? 7087
- Demographic Trends, Inequalities, and the Digital Divide 7188
- Technology in Family Communication 7390
- Technology and Work-Family Boundaries for Working Parents 7693
- Surveillance and “Screen Time” for Parents and Children 7794
- Conclusions 84101
- References 86103
- Chapter 5: Parenthood and Mental Health in the United States: Why Don’t Children Improve Adults’ Emotional Well-Being? 90107
- Background 91108
- The Evidence from Decades of Sociological Research 94111
- The Current Explanation of Parental Status Disparities in Mental Health 96113
- Variations in Stress and Mental Health among Parents in the United States 98115
- Current Gaps in Knowledge about Variations in Mental Health among Parents in the United States 100117
- Conclusions 105122
- References 108125
- Part 2: Work, Family, and Leisure for Parents 117134
- Introduction: Work, Family, and Leisure for Parents 117134
- Chapter 6: Parental Leave Programs: What Do We Know about Designing Good Policies? 119136
- Chapter 7: The Promise and Limits of Work-Family Supports in a Shifting Policy Landscape: A Double Bind for Working Mothers in Western Germany 141158
- Chapter 8: Parenthood and Leisure Time Disparities 168185
- Part 3: Inequalities 197214
- Introduction: Inequalities 197214
- Chapter 9: Understanding Inequality: Children, Consumer Culture, and the Empathy Framework 199216
- Chapter 10: Do We Talk about Race/Ethnicity with our Children or Not? Variations in Parental Ethnic-Racial Socialization Strategies 216233
- Chapter 11: What Do Visas Have to Do with Parenting? Middle-Class Dependent Visa Holders and Transcultural Parenting 237254
- Chapter 12: Lost in Detention and Deportation—“Found” through Foster Care and Adoption: Reviewing the Tensions between Family Building and Human Rights in the United States 258275
- Adoption Overview 260277
- Immigration Terrorism 262279
- The Internet is Transforming Adoption 264281
- Domestic Transracial Adoptions and the Power of Language 269286
- Whose Rights Matter? 271288
- Family Building/Family Dissolution 275292
- Adults Adopted Prior to 2000 276293
- Conclusion 277294
- References 278295
- Chapter 13: Child Well-Being in Same-Gender-Parent Families: Courts, Media, and Social Science Research 283300
- Chapter 14: Reproducing Family: How Parents Accept Their LGB Children’s “Good” Families 302319
- Conclusion 323340
- About the Editor and Contributors 327344
- Index 331348