Families in Global and Multicultural Perspective 2/e

Bron Ingoldsby is Associate Professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University. He received his Ph.D. in Child and Family Development from the University of Georgia. A leader in the area of cross-cultural family research, he is the author of numerous professional publications, including (with Raeann Hamon) Mate Selection Across Cultures. His current work focuses on family change among the Hutterian Brethren, and marriage in Latin America. He is a popular instructor of Cross Cultural Family classes at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. He was honored as the 2002 recipient of the Jan Trost Award for Outstanding Contributions to Comparative Family Studies by the National Council on Family Relations. He has served twice on the NCFR board as the chair of the International and Religion & Family Life sections. Suzanna Smith is Associate Professor in the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences at the University of Florida. She has a Ph.D. in Child and Family Development and a Master's Degree in Social Work; and is a Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE). In addition to teaching, Dr. Smith develops Extension programs for families through the Florida Cooperative Extension Service. Her research has focused on difficult economic transitions and the impacts on women and their families, particularly in rural and natural resource dependent communities. She also has experience in human services, offering resources and support to children, women, families, and the elderly in need. Her international work has included research and training programs in Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Haiti, and Korea, as well as coursework for international students and faculty.

Part I. Foundations of Comparative Family Studies 1. Global Families - Suzanna Smith 2. Comparative Family Research Methodology - Gary Lee, Nancy Greenwood 3. The History of the Euro-Western Family - Bron Ingoldsby Part 1 Exercise: Comparative Family Research Study Part II. Family Structure 4. Family Origin and Universality - Bron Ingoldsby 5. Patterns of Kinship and Residence - Max Stanton 6. Marital Structure - Bron Ingoldsby 7. Religious Utopias and Family Structure - Bron Ingoldsby Part 2 Exercise: The Ethnic Genogram Part III. Family Development 8. Mate Selection and Marriage - Bron Ingoldsby 9. Parenting Practices Worldwide - Judith Myers-Walls, Karen Myers-Bowman, German Posada 10. International Divorce - Patrick McKenry, Sharon Price 11. Diversity in International Aging Families - Richard Miller, William Meredith Part 3 Exercise: Mate Selection Part IV. International Family Variation 12. Asian and Latino Immigrant Families - Walter Kawamoto, Rueben Anguiano 13. Families in the Islamic Middle East - Bahira Sherif-Trask 14. Families in sub-Saharan Africa - Stephan Wilson, Lucy Ngige 15. Families in Latin America - Bron Ingoldsby 16. Families in Japan - Colleen Murray, Naoko Kimura Part 4 Exercise: The Story of Jose and Lana Part V. Social Inequality in the Contemporary World 17. Native American Families - Tamara Cheshire 18. Women in the Two-Thirds World - Sandra Russo, Suzanna Smith 19. Household Division of Labor in Industrial Societies - Linda Haas 20. Poverty and Family Policy in a Global Context - Mark Rank, Gautam Yadama Part 5 Exercise: The Arias Family

The editors, both qualified scholars with a comparative perspective, have been successful in finding well-known authors for the various chapters. Both theoretical and methodological issues are dealt with in a nuanced and qualified manner. Comparative perspectives are on an historical as well as a global manner. The book is to be highly recommended to students, faculty and libraries. -- Jan Trost "I like the organization of the chapters...The strength of this book is its comparative approach under several theoretic frameworks...I believe this book definitely has a market of its own. This book appears to be the most comprehensive study of global families." -- Heying Jenny Zhan "This comprehensive text increases students' recognition of and respect for cultural diversity as it influences family life; meets educators' need for a comparative family text; and contributes to the development of new ways of thinking about families that highlights culture and context." -- Family Therapy * Libra Publishers *