• Part I: Emergent Issues, Themes, and Conceptualizations. "McLoyd, Hill, Dodge, " Ecological and Cultural Diversity in African American Family Life. "Hill, Murry, Anderson, "Sociocultural Contexts of African American Families. "Lamb, Land, Meadows, Traylor, " Trends in African American Child Well-Being, 1985--2001. "Darity Jr., Nicholson, " Racial Wealth Inequality and the Black Family. "Tucker, James, "New Families, New Functions: Postmodern African American Families in Context. Part II: African American Families in Community Contexts. "Bryant, Wickrama, " Marital Relationships of African Americans: A Contextual Approach. "McLoyd, Enchautegui-de-Jes?s, " Work and African American Family Life. "Burton, Clark, " Homeplace and Housing in the Lives of Low-Income Urban African American Families. "Mattis, " Religion in African American Family Life. "Dilworth-Anderson, Goodwin, " A Model of Extended Family Support: Care of the Elderly in African American Families. Part III: Socialization Processes in African American Families. "Barbarin, McCandies, Coleman, Hill, " Family Practices and School Performance of African American Children. "Dodge, McLoyd, Lansford, "The Cultural Context of Physically Disciplining Children. "Coard, Sellers, " African American Families as a Context for Racial Socialization. "Pinderhughes, Harden, " Beyond the Birth Family: African American Children Reared by Alternative Caregivers. "Stevenson, Winn, Walker-Barnes, Coard, " Style Matters: Toward a Culturally Relevant Framework for Interventions with African American Families.
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This volume offers new perspectives on the cultural, economic, and community contexts of African American family life. Recognizing the diversity of contemporary African American families, leading experts from different disciplines present the latest knowledge on such topics as family formation, gender roles, child rearing, care of the elderly, and religious practices. Particular attention is given to how families draw on cultural resources to adapt to racial disparities in wealth, housing, education, and employment, and how culture, in turn, is shaped by these circumstances. Factors that promote or hinder healthy development are explored, as are research-based practices and policies for supporting families' strengths.
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• African American family life : the dynamics of interactions, relationships, and roles / Melvin N. Wilson, Christine Greene-Bates, LaMont McKim, Faith Simmons, Tiffany Askew, Judith Curry-El, Ivora D. Hinton
• Familial and ecological correlates of self-esteem in African American children / Katrina Walker, Eric Taylor, Angela McElroy, Di-Ann Phillip, Melvin N. Wilson
• Social support networks in the African American family : utility for culturally compatible intervention / Laura P. Kohn, Melvin N. Wilson
• An analysis of adult-child conversation patterns in diverse African American families / Timothy F. J. Tolson, Melvin N. Wilson, Ivora D. Hinton, Faith Simmons, Wendy Staples, Tiffany Askew
• Effect of familial compostion on parent-child interactions in African American families / Ivora D. Hinton, Melvin N. Wilson, Hope Solomon, Ursula Smith, Di-Ann Phillip, Jennifer Boyer
• Promotion of African Amreican family life : families, poverty, and social programs / Melvin N. Wilson, Joyce B. Lewis, Ivora D. Hinton, Laura P. Kohn, Alex Underwood, Lan Kho Phuong Hogue, Judith Curry-El.

• Asexual men and women: living without sex-- Childfree women and men: living without children-- Couples together yet apart (I love you but do not want to live with you)-- Househusbands: Stay-at-home dads-- Lone mothers and lone fathers-- Homosexual and trans parents-- Conclusions.
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As new forms of family and 'non-traditional' families grow in number, there is a need to understand these 'new' arrangements and models of parenthood. This ground-breaking book discusses, using a comparative and a sociological perspective, examples of the relationship between changing gender identities and processes of family formation in the Western experience. It aims to show that, in the 21st century, it is possible to form a family without sex, without children, without a shared home, without a partner, without a working husband, without a heterosexual orientation or without a 'biological' sexual body. Diversity in family life will help readers discover and understand the characteristics, advantages and drawbacks of these new models of parenthood, and their political implications in terms of social movements, characteristics and demands.
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This diary, of the prominent Boston jurist and merchant Samual Sewall (1652-1730), contradicts the grim portrait of the Puritan household as being joyless, repressive and even brutal. Instead, it depicts his, albeit exceptional, home as a nurturing and caring place for childrearing.
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