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Reminiscences of the author chiefly on the social practices in Delhi during the 1950's.

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• I The Changing Family
• 1 Families Past and Present
• The Global Revolution in Family and Personal Life
• The Life Course Revolution
• What We Really Miss about the 1950's
• 2 Public Debates and Private Lives
• The Mommy Wars
• Decline of the Family: Conservative, Liberal, and Feminist Views
• II The Sexes
• 3 Changing Gender Roles
• Destined for Equality
• Children of the Gender Revolution
• Men, Women, and Housework
• Japan's Battle of the Sexes
• 4 Sexuality and Society
• Sexual Revolution(s)
• Culture Channels Sexuality
• 5 Courtship and Marriage
• From Going With: The Role of a Social Form in Early Romance
• The Future of Marriage
• Few Good Men
• Peer Marriage
• 6 Divorce and Remarriage
• Divorce: Challenges, Changes, and New Chances
• Divorce Culture: A Quest for Relational Equality in Marriage
• Women in Stepfamilies: The Fairy, the Wicked Witch and Cinderella Reconstructed
• III Parents And Children
• 7 Parenthood
• Becoming a Parent
• A Typology of Approaches to Childcare
• Chasing the Blood Tie: Surrogate Mothers, Adoptive Mothers, and Fathers
• 8 Childhood
• With David E. Myers, Revolutions in Children's Lives
• What Children Think about Their Working Parents
• IV Families In Society
• 9 Work and Family
• Families on the Fault Line
• The Family and Part Time-Work
• With Anne Machung, The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home
• 10 Family Diversity
• Mixed Doubles
• Diversity within African-American Families
• Diversity within Latino Families
• Reinventing the Family
• 11 The Age Revolution
• The Family in an Aging Society: A Matrix of Latent Relationships
• The Modernization of Grandparenthood
• 12 Trouble in the Family
• Why Do They Do It? (Teenage Pregnancy)
• Family Values against the Odds
• Anatomy of a Violent Relationship
• Monster Moms