Bücher von Marilyn Coleman

This volume focuses on a wide range of behaviors and outcomes in stepfamily relationships, both positive and negative. The authors use the normative-adaptive perspective to seek out and study adaptive, well-functioning stepfamilies and find how they differ from those who struggle to cope.

In this detailed look at family life in America, Coleman, Ganong and Warzinick discuss home and work, family ceremonies and celebrations, parenting and children, divorce and single-parent homes, gay and lesbian families, as well as cooking and meals, urban vs.

This volume explores attitudes and beliefs concerning intergenerational family responsibilities with special focus on families affected by divorce and/or remarriage. For developmentalists, family studies specialists, sociologists, and policy makers.