Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive
volume investigates modern-day family relationships, partnering,
and parenting set against a backdrop of rapid social, economic,
cultural, and technological change.
Covers a broad range of topics, including social inequality,
parenting practices, children?s work, changing patterns of
citizenship, multi-cultural families, and changes in welfare state
protection for families
Includes many European, North American and Asian examples
written by a team of experts from across five continents
Features coverage of previously neglected groups, including
immigrant and transnational families as well as families of gays
and lesbians
Demonstrates how studying social change in families is
fundamental for understanding the transformations in individual and
social life across the globe
Extensively reworked from the original Companion published over
a decade ago: three-quarters of the material is completely new, and
the remainder has been comprehensively updated
Author Biography
Judith Treas is Professor of Sociology and Director ofthe Center for Demographic and Social Analysis at the University ofCalifornia, Irvine. Her latest book, edited with SonjaDrobnie, is Dividing the Domestic: Women, Men and HouseholdWork in Cross-National Perspective (2010). Jacqueline Scott is Professor of Empirical Sociology inthe Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology and InternationalStudies, and a Fellow of Queens College, University ofCambridge. Dr Scott is the editor of Gender Inequalities in the21st Century: New Barriers and Continuing Constraints (withRosemary Crompton and Clare Lyonette, 2010) and Women andEmployment: Changing Lives and New Challenges (with Shirley Dexand Heather Joshi, 2009). Martin Richards is Emeritus Professor of FamilyRessearch, Centre for Family Research, University ofCambridge. His recent books include ReproductiveDonation: Practice, Policy and Bioethics (edited with GuidoPennings and John B. Appleby, 2012) and We areFamily?Relatedness in Assisted Reproduction: Families, Origins andIdentitie (edited with Tabitha Freeman, Fatemeh Ebtehaj, andSusanna Graham, 2014).