| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 611 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The demography of stepfamilies in the United States / Jay Teachman and Lucky Tedrow -- Stereotypes of stepfamilies and stepfamily members / Stephen Claxton-Oldfield -- Stepfamilies in France since the 1990s / Jean-François Mignot -- The social context of emerging stepfamilies in Japan / Shinji Nozawa -- Stepfathers in cultural context : Mexican American families in the United States / Scott Coltrane, Erika Gutierrez, and Ross D. Parke -- Stepfathers in families / Jeremy Robertson -- Resident mothers in stepfamilies / Marjorie Smith -- Sibling relationships in blended families / Melinda E. Baham, Amy A. Weimer, Sanford L. Braver, and William V. Fabricius -- Resident parent-child relationships in stepfamilies / Claire Cartwright -- A longitudinal examination of marital processes leading to instability in remarriages and stepfamilies / Brad van Eeden-Moorefield and Kay Pasley -- Children's appraisals of relationships in stepfamilies and first families / Katherine H. Shelton, Sasha L. Walters, and Gordon T. Harold -- The distribution of household tasks in first-marriage families and stepfamilies across Europe / Laurent Snoeckx, Britt Dehertogh, and Dimitri Mortelmans -- Communication in stepfamilies / Tamara D. Afifi -- Kinship in stepfamilies / Graham Allan, Sheila Hawker, and Graham Crow -- Children's relationships with nonresident parents / Jan Pryor -- The diversity of stepmothers / Marilyn Coleman, Jessica Troilo, and Tyler Jamison -- Intergenerational relationships in stepfamilies / Lawrence Ganong -- A clinician's view of "stepfamily architecture" / Patricia L. Papernow -- Research on interventions for stepfamily couples / Sarah W. Whitton, Jan M. Nicholson and Howard J. Markman -- The prevention and treatment of children's adjustment problems in stepfamilies / Jan M. Nicholson, Matthew R Sanders, W. Kim Halford, Maddy Phillips, and Sarah W. Whitton -- Legal structures and re-formed families / Bill Atkin -- How relevant are U.S. family and probate laws to stepfamilies? / Sarah E.C. Malia -- Where to from here? Stepfamilies and the future / Jan Pryor |
| Summary |
The International Handbook of Stepfamilies: Policy and Practice in Legal, Research, and Clinical Environments considers stepfamilies from an international context with information on contemporary research and its implications |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Stepfamilies -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Stepfamilies.
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Family.
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Cross-Cultural Comparison.
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pryor, Jan.
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| ISBN |
0470293535 (electronic bk.) |
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1118269926 (electronic bk.) |
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1281732702 |
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9780470293539 (electronic bk.) |
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9781118269923 (electronic bk.) |
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9781281732705 |
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(cloth) |
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