The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Family Studies
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Family Studies
Editor: Shehan, Constance L.
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Wiley
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-0-47-065845-1
Category: Social Sciences - Sociology
Image Count:
6
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Family Studies presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection of the key concepts, trends, and processes relating to the study of families and family patterns throughout the world.
This book is found in the following Credo Collections:
Table of Contents
- Volume I: Family Studies A–C
- Editors
- Contributors
- Lexicon
- Timeline
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- A
- ABC‐X Model of Family Stress and Coping
- Abortion, Laws, in the United States
- Abortion, Rates, in the United States
- Abortion, US Attitudes to
- Abstinence Programs in the United States
- Activities of Daily Living
- Adjustment to Divorce (Children)
- Adjustment to Divorce (Spouses)
- Adolescence
- Adoption, GLBT
- Adoption, History
- Adoption, Laws, in the United States
- Affinal Relatives
- Africa, Aging and Families in
- Africa, Families in
- African American Families
- Age at First Marriage
- Age, Period, and Cohort Effects
- Aging of the World's Population
- AIDS, Impact on Families (Africa)
- Alimony Issues in the United States
- Alternative Schools in the United States
- Alzheimer's Disease and Families
- Amish Families
- Antipoverty Programs (US)
- Arab American Families
- Arranged Marriage
- Asian American Families
- Assisted Reproductive Technology
- Assortative Mating
- Attachment Styles
- Attachment Theory
- Australia, Families in
- Authoritarian Parenting
- Authoritative Parenting in the United States
- B
- Baby Boom
- Baha'i Faith and Families
- Bangladesh, Families in
- Bicultural Families
- Bigamy
- Binuclear Families
- Biosocial Perspectives on Families
- Blended Families
- Brazil, Families in
- Breadwinner Role
- Breastfeeding in the United States
- Bride Capture
- Bride Price
- Bundling
- C
- Cambodia, Families in
- Canada, Families in
- Caregiving Experience
- Caregiving, Child
- Catholicism and Families
- Celibacy
- Cenogamy
- Censuses of Population
- Child Abduction in the United States
- Child Abuse in the United States
- Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal
- Child Brides
- Child Care in the United States
- Child Custody
- Child Custody: US Historical and Legal Contexts
- Child Development
- Child Malnutrition (Chronic)
- Child Maltreatment (Journal)
- Child Mortality Rates
- Child Neglect/Abandonment
- Child Sexual Abuse
- Child Support
- Childbirth
- Childhood Socialization
- Childhood, History of
- Childhood, Sociology of
- Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research
- Childlessness, Involuntary
- Childlessness, Voluntary
- Children in Families
- Children's Literature and Family Diversity
- Children's Rights
- Christianity and Families
- Chronic Illness and Families
- Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems
- Civil Unions
- Cognitive Development Theory
- Cohabitation, Nonmarital
- Cohesion, Marital
- Collateral Family
- Common‐Law Marriage
- Communication, Dyadic/Marital
- Communication, Family
- Communities/Neighbors and Families in the United States
- Community, Work & Family (Journal)
- Commuter Marriages
- Companionate Marriage
- Complementary Needs Theory
- Conception
- Concerted Cultivation
- Conflict Resolution
- Conflict Tactics Scale
- Conflict Theory
- Consanguinity
- Contraception in the United States
- Convenience Marriage in the United States
- Co‐Parenting
- Coping Strategies
- Co‐Provider Marriages
- Co‐Sleeping
- Cost of Raising Children
- Council on Contemporary Families
- Coupledom
- Couples' Counseling
- Courtship
- Covenant Marriage
- Crime and Families
- Croatia, Families in
- Cross‐Cousin Marriage
- Cross‐Cultural Families
- Cuba, Families in
- Cult of Domesticity
- Custody Disputes
- Volume II: Family Studies D–H
- D
- Date and Acquaintance Rape
- Dating
- Day Care
- Death and Families
- Decision‐Making in Families
- Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)
- Definition of Family
- Deinstitutionalization of Marriage
- Delayed Childbearing
- Demographic Transition
- Denmark, Families in
- Descent Rules
- Disabilities and Families
- Divorce Divide in the United States
- Divorce Law
- Divorce Mediation in the United States
- Divorce Rates, Measurement of
- Divorce Revolution
- Divorce Statistics
- Domestic Partnerships in the United States
- Donaldson Adoption Institute
- Donors and Donor Siblings
- Dual‐Earner Couples in the United States
- E
- Early Childhood
- Eastern Asia, Families in
- Eastern European Immigrants
- Ecological Approach
- Economic Distress in the United States
- Egypt, Families in
- Elder Abuse in the United States
- Elder Care in the United States
- Elopement
- Emerging Adulthood
- Emerging Adulthood (Journal)
- Emotional Labor
- Empty Nest
- Endogamy in the United States
- Engagement
- Equity Theory
- Ethnically and Racially Mixed Families in the United States
- Ethnicity and Family Life in the United States
- Europe, Families in
- Evangelical Marriages
- Exchange Theory
- Exogamy
- Extended Family
- F
- Familicide
- Families in Later Life
- Families in Middle Life
- Familism
- Family as a Social Institution
- Family Boundaries
- Family Cohesion
- Family & Community Health (Journal)
- Family Counseling
- Family Crisis in the United States
- Family Decline Theory
- Family Demographic Patterns
- Family Development Theory
- Family Estrangement
- Family Finances
- Family Law in the United States
- Family Lineage
- Family of Orientation
- Family of Procreation
- Family Policies
- Family Process (Journal)
- Family Relations (Journal)
- Family Resilience
- Family Science
- Family Size
- Family Stability
- Family Structure
- Family Systems Theory
- Family Values in Global Perspective
- Family Violence
- Father Role, History of
- Fathering Styles in the United States
- Fathers as Caregivers
- Fecundity
- Female Circumcision
- Female Infanticide
- Female‐Headed Households in the United States
- Feminist Perspectives on Families
- Feminization of Love
- Feminization of Poverty
- Fertility Rates
- Fictive Kin
- Filial Responsibility
- Filicide
- Filter Theory
- Flexible Scheduling
- Food Security
- Foster Care
- Frequency of Sexual Relations in Marriage
- Friends with Benefits
- G
- Gambia, Families in
- Gay Men as Parents
- Gay Men's Relationships in the United States
- Gender
- Gender & Society (Journal)
- Gender and Aging
- Gender and Communication
- Gender and Health
- Gender and Household Labor
- Gender and Muslim Families
- Gender and Sexuality
- Gender Identity
- Gender Roles
- Gender Socialization
- Gender Stratification
- Gender Wage Gap
- Generation X
- Generational Bridge
- Genocide and Families
- Germany, Families in
- Ghana, Families in
- Global Gender Gap Report
- Globalization and Families
- Grandparent–Grandchild Relationships
- Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
- Greatest Generation
- Grief
- Guardianship in the United States
- Guest Worker Families in Europe
- H
- Health and Families
- Health Disparities in Families in the United States
- Helicopter Parents
- Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- Heterogamy, Race
- Heterogamy, Religious
- Heterosexism
- Higher Education
- Hinduism and Families
- HIV and Families
- Homelessness in the United States
- Homeschooling in the United States
- Homogamy
- Hong Kong, Families in
- Honor Killings
- Hooking Up in the United States
- Household Labor
- Hypergamy
- Hypogamy
- Volume III: Family Studies I–P
- I
- Iceland, Families in
- Immigrant Families in the United States
- Immigration in the United States
- Incarceration and Families in the United States
- Incest
- India, Families in
- Industrialization and Family Change
- Infant Mortality Rates
- Infertility
- Infidelity in the United States
- Instrumental Activities of Daily Living
- Intercountry Adoption to the United States
- Intergenerational Households
- Intergenerational Relationships
- Intermarriage in the United States
- International Journal of Aging and Human Development
- International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family
- International Violence against Women Act
- International Year of the Family
- Internet Dating
- Interracial Adoption
- Interracial Marriage
- Intersexed Individuals
- Intimacy
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Intimate Partner Violence Fatalities in the United States
- Intimate Partner Violence, US Criminal Justice Response to
- Iran, Families in
- Ireland, Families in
- Islam and Families
- Israel, Families in
- Italy, Families in
- J
- Japan, Families in
- Joint Family Structure
- Journal of Aging and Health
- Journal of Aging Studies
- Journal of Child and Family Studies
- Journal of Comparative Family Studies
- Journal of Family Communication
- Journal of Family Issues
- Journal of Family Nursing
- Journal of Family Psychology
- Journal of Family Social Work
- Journal of Family Studies
- Journal of Family Theory & Review
- Journal of GLBT Family Studies
- Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
- Journal of Marriage and Family
- Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health
- Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
- Judaism and Families
- Jumping the Broom
- K
- Kinsey Reports on Human Sexuality
- Kinship
- L
- Latino Families in the United States
- Lee's Styles of Loving
- Lesbian Parents
- Lesbian Relationships
- Liberia, Families in
- Life Course Perspective
- Life Expectancy
- Life Span Developmental Psychology
- Living Alone Together
- Long‐Distance Relationships
- Love
- M
- Mail Order Brides
- Malaysia, Families in
- Marital Adjustment
- Marital Conflict
- Marital Power
- Marital Quality
- Marital Rape
- Marital Satisfaction
- Marital Stability
- Marital Success
- Marriage and Relationship Education in the United States
- Marriage Counseling in the United States
- Marriage Equality in the United States
- Marriage & Family Review (Journal)
- Marriage Laws in the United States
- Marriage Market
- Marriage Movement
- Marriage Promotion Policy
- Marriage Rates
- Marx and Engels on the Family
- Mate Selection
- Maternal Employment
- Maternal Instinct
- Maternal Mortality
- Maternity Leave
- Mating Gradient
- Media Representations of Family in the United States
- Media Representations of Sexuality
- Menarche
- Menopause
- Men's Roles in Families
- Mexican American Families
- Mexico, Families in
- Middle Childhood
- Midwifery
- Migrant Worker Families
- Migration and Families
- Millennials
- Miscegenation
- Mobility, Residential
- Mobility, Social
- Modernization and Families
- Moldova, Families in
- Mongolia, Families in
- Monogamy
- Mormon Families
- Motherhood Mystique
- Motherhood Penalty in the United States
- Mothering Styles
- Mothering, Intensive, in the United States
- Multipartnered Fertility
- N
- National Center for Family & Marriage Research
- National Council on Family Relations (NCFR)
- Native American Families
- Nepal, Families in
- Nigeria, Families in
- Noncustodial Parents
- Nonmarital Births in the United States
- Nuclear Families
- O
- One‐Child Policy
- Only Children
- Open Marriage
- Orphans
- Othermothers
- P
- Parental Discipline
- Parental Employment in the United States
- Parental Leave
- Parental Roles
- Parent–Child Alienation
- Parenting Styles
- Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
- Paternity Leave
- Permissive Parents
- Pew Research Center
- Philippines, Families in
- Place of Residence Rules
- Poland, Families in
- Polyamory
- Polyandry
- Polygamy in Africa
- Polygyny
- Pool of Eligibles
- Population Pyramid
- Portugal, Families in
- Postpartum Depression
- Poverty in the United States
- Pregnancy
- Premarital Dating Relationships in Iran
- Primogeniture
- Principle of Least Interest
- Propinquity
- Puberty
- Volume IV: Family Studies Q–Z
- Q
- Queer Families
- R
- Race and Family Life
- Race and Sexuality
- Racial Socialization in the United States
- Racism and Families in the United States
- Rape
- Refugee Families
- Religion and Gender
- Remarriage
- Remarriage: Starting Over
- Reproduction
- Reproductive Rights
- Research on Aging (Journal)
- Retreat from Marriage
- Role Ambiguity
- Role Conflict, Role Overload, and Role Strain
- Role‐Sequencing
- Romantic Love
- Russia, Families in
- S
- Same‐Sex Marriage in the United States
- Sati
- Schools and Families
- Second Shift
- Second‐Parent Adoption in the United States
- Self‐Disclosure
- Separation, Marital
- Serial Monogamy
- Sex Education in the United States
- Sex Ratio
- Sex Trafficking
- Sexual Aggression
- Sexual Coercion
- Sexual Identity
- Sexual Orientation
- Sexual Scripts
- Sexuality
- Sexuality in Iran
- Sexually Bounded Primary Relationships (SBPRs)
- Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Sharia Law
- Shift Work in the United States
- Sibling Relationships
- Sibling Violence
- Singapore, Families in
- Single Fathers
- Single Mothers by Choice in Spain and the United States
- Single Parenthood
- Singlehood
- Social Class and Childrearing
- Social Construction
- Social Fathers
- South Africa, Families in
- South Korea, Families in
- Spain, Families in
- Sport, Leisure, and Family Life
- Standard North American Family
- Stay‐at‐Home Fathers
- Stay‐at‐Home Mothers
- Stepfamilies
- Stepgrandparenting
- Stepparenting
- Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love
- Street Children
- Structural Functional Theory
- Substance Abuse, Families, and Social Workers in the United States
- Suicide and Divorce
- Surrogacy
- Symbolic Interaction Theory
- T
- Taiwan, Families in
- Teen Dating Violence in the United States
- Teen Motherhood
- Teen Parenting in the United States
- Teen Pregnancy
- Teen Sexuality
- Tender Years Doctrine
- Thailand, Families in
- Theories of Aging
- Time Use
- Timor‐Leste, Families in
- Trailing Partners
- Transgender
- Transition to Adulthood
- Transition to Parenthood and Relationship Satisfaction
- Transnational Families
- Transnational Motherhood
- Turkey, Families in
- Two‐Person Career
- U
- Unemployment and Families
- UNICEF
- United Nations Perspectives on Families
- United States, Families in
- United States, Military Families in
- Unpaid Family Workers
- V
- Veneration of the Dead among the Igbo
- Vietnam, Families in
- Violence against Women Act
- Violence against Women: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal
- Virginity
- W
- War and Families
- Wedding Industry
- Wedding Rituals
- Wheel Theory of Love
- Widowhood
- Wife Capture
- Williams Institute
- Women, Gender, and Families of Color (Journal)
- Women's Roles in Families
- Work and Families in the United States
- Work–Family Policies in the United States
- Working‐Class Families in the United States
- Y
- Youth
- Youth & Society (Journal)
- Z
- Zimbabwe, Families in