Families in Context - Grand Format

The most thoroughly updated edition yet, this book offers students perspectives of changes in marriage and family over time, including the impact of the Great Recession and of new media technologies. A hallmark of Families in Context remains the well-researched, data-driven quality of the text. Beyond presenting thoroughly updated statistics and literature, each chapter examines new trends and assesses their implications for students' lives.
The underlying presentation remains balanced, theoretically grounded, and accessible to a wide variety of classes, allowing students of all ages and family backgrounds to draw their own conclusions about controversial topics. Traces major changes and continuities in family economies and prospects since the Great Recession. New chapter box series, "Health Connection," provides features on families and health.
"Families in the News," "Finding Out,"and 'Highlight" boxes updated throughout. New coverage of new social media and families. Coverage of the Affordable Care Act. Discusses the latest trends in poverty, education, achievement, mobility, work patterns, gender/work relationships, same-sex marriage, identities, population, and health care. Author-created PowerPoint slides provide lectures based on the corresponding chapters outlined in the book and are available upon request.