Canadian Families Today 4th Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780199025763,01990257629780199025770, 0199025770

Product details:

• ISBN-10:  0199025770
• ISBN-13: 9780199025770
• Author:  Patrizia Albanese

Now in its fourth edition, Canadian Families Today presents a comprehensive introduction to the sociological study of our nation’s families. This thought-provoking collection explores the major themes, historical developments, and contemporary cases that are currently shaping family life, including discussions on the changing definitions of “family”, new studies on the life course and family dynamics, and the unique challenges that families in Canada face. Written by a team of experts from across Canada and fully up-to-date with the latest research and data, these essays provide students with a fascinating in-depth look at the issues and trends affecting families in Canada today. The fourth edition features brand-new chapters on refugee families in Canada and Indigenous families, as well as increased coverage of topics such as mixed-race unions, same-sex parenting, transgender families, and the recent Canada Child Benefit. The text also includes a new “Daily Life” box that allows students to connect concepts and theories to real-life experiences, as well as new critical thinking questions throughout each chapter for students to consider.

Table contents:

PART I: Conceptualizing Families, Past and Present

1: Introduction to Diversity in Canada’s Families: Variation in Forms, Definitions, and Theories

2: Canada’s Families: Historical and Contemporary Variations

3: Same-sex Marriage in Canada

PART II: The Life Course

4: Intimacy, Commitment, and Family Formation

5: Parenting Young Children: Decisions and Realities

6: Separation and Divorce: Fragmentation and Renewal of Families

7: Families in Middle and Later Life: Patterns and Dynamics of Living Longer, Aging Together

PART III: Family Issues

8: Marriage and Death Rituals

9: Paid and Unpaid Work: Connecting Households, Workplaces, State Polices, and Communities

10: Family Poverty in Canada: Correlates, Coping Strategies, and Consequences

11: The Settlement of Refugee Families in Canada: Pre-migration and Post-migration Trajectories and

12: Indigenous Families

13: Lack of Support: Canadian Families and Disability

PART IV: Problems, Policies, and Predictions

14: Violence in Families

15 Investing in Families and Children: Family Policies in Canada

16 The Past of the Future and the Future of the Family

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