Handbook of World Families

Handbook of World Families PDF Author: Bert N. Adams
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761927631
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 666

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Book Description
The Handbook of World Families clarifies and promotes a cross-cultural perspective on the family by an examination of 25 countries worldwide, with the same topics covered in parallel fashion for each. These topics include a brief demographic and historic description of the country, mate selection, child rearing practices, gender roles, family stresses and violence, divorce and remarriage, kinship, aging and death, and the family within the broader societal institutions including politics, economics, and religion.