With a focus on nine different national contexts, this book explores contemporary family diversity. With attention to the different welfare states and cultures of care in each setting, it problematizes the pre-eminence of research and policy centered on heteronormative families, showing the extent to which family diversity exists cross-nationally in relation to different gendered and "family-friendly" policies. Considering variations in family forms, including differences in the number and marital status of parents, their gender, sexual orientation and biological relationship to the children (adoption), multicultural families, and families created by technological assistance or surrogacy, it presents demographic information, alongside quantitative and qualitative research, across a number of advanced countries. A contribution to our understanding of the diversity of family forms, how diversity is lived in families, and what family diversity means in various international policy contexts. The Changing Faces of Families will appeal to scholars with interests in the sociology of the family.
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Limited family diversity in Japan: A legacy of traditional familism
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Lithuanian families: Living diversity in times of outdated policies
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Family diversity in Spain: A portrait of rapid transformation
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Changes in family diversity in Sweden: Opportunities, constraints and challenges
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Diversity in UK families: Liberalization of public attitudes and policies
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