Contributor
McCaffrey, Paul, 1977-
Imprint:Ipswich, MA : H.W. Wilson, 2013.
Descriptionxii, 210 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:Reference shelf volumes present a collection of writings and speeches contemporary to the topic.
Note:Who is family today? -- Contemporary motherhood -- Changing perspectives on fatherhood -- Adoption and the changing face of families -- Families across cultures -- Family, finances, and the economy.
Note:Contemporary perspectives on family life / Paul Moglia -- Family redefined / Paul McCaffrey -- Address to the Iowa House of Representatives / Zach Wahls -- How America changed / Haya El Nasser, Paul Overberg -- What is family? / Heather Somaini -- Freer, messier, happier / Jeremy Adam Smith -- Gay couples: a close look at this modern family / Sharon Jayson -- More gay men embrace marriage, fatherhood / The Associated Press -- SPLC lawsuit challenges Defense of Marriage Act, VA for refusing to recognize legally married same-sex couples / SPLC.org -- Fighting for family / Tara Cavanaugh -- American mothers: finding a balance / Paul McCaffrey -- Midlife mamas: it's worth the wait / Karen West -- Why I left my children / Rahna Reiko Rizzuto -- Mother Huckster / Sarah McAbee -- The Mommy option / Elizabeth Gettelman -- The Jewish mother I thought I'd never be / Kim Brooks -- Obama's young mother abroad / Janny Scott -- Fatherhood across the spectrum / Paul McCaffrey -- Remarks by the President at a Father's Day event / Barack Obama -- How dads develop / Brian Mossop -- Military dads and fatherwork / Jerry Novack -- Holidays / Nick Serpe -- Father's Day: why dads are more engaged ... and more absent / Mark Trumbull -- Why antipoverty efforts must not neglect fathers / Leslie Lenkowsky -- Fatherhood 2.0 / Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, Lev Grossman -- Multiple approaches to adoption and building families / Paul McCaffrey -- Modern family / Meryl Gordon -- About a boy / Adam H. Graham -- The American adoption family I know of / Meixin Dai -- Same and different / Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee -- Born identity / Kelley Christin -- For adoptive parents, questions without answers / John Leland -- Adoption 2.0: finding mom on Facebook / Belinda Luscome -- Bicultural and multilingual families / Paul McCaffrey -- Dearborn in the USA / Sohrab Ahmari -- The Latino crescent / Lyndsey Matthews -- Chinese or American? Or both? / Amy Ku -- I just came out to my 80-something father / Prumsodun Ok -- I am Chinese American / Ray Kwong -- My life as an undocumented immigrant / Jose Antonio Vargas -- Mideast meets midwest / James Poniewozik -- Family and the economy / Paul McCaffrey -- Poverty, hardship and families: how many people are poor, and what does being poor in America really mean? / Philip N. Cohen -- All together now: extended families / Sharon Jayson -- One in two new graduates are jobless or underemployed / Hope Yen -- A Long, steep drop for Americans' standard of living / Ron Scherer -- Economic check-up dismal for many U.S. families / Jason Kane -- Black Atlantans struggle to stay in the middle class / Robert Siegel.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"The Reference Shelf series offers extensive, comprehensive explorations of timely and significant social issues. Each book in the series compiles notable articles from respected publications with reflective introductions that address the social and cultural implications of the discussions presented, as well as a bibliography directing readers to additional sources in both print and electronic form."--Publisher's note
