Changing perspectives on fatherhood
Adoption and the changing face of families
Family, finances, and the economy
[Pt.] 1: Who is family today?. Family redefined / Paul McCaffrey ; Address to the Iowa House of Representatives / Zach Wahls ; How America changed / Haya El Nasser and 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 --
[Pt.] 2: Contemporary motherhood. 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 : 1 in 4 moms stay-at-home / Elizabeth Gettelman ; The Jewish mother I never thought I'd be / Kim Brooks ; Obama's young mother abroad / Janny Scott --
[Pt.] 3: Changing perspectives on fatherhood. 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
Mark Trumbull ; Whv antipoverty efforts must not neglect fathers / Leslie Lenkowsky ; Fatherhood 2.0 / Lisa Takeuchi Cullen and Lev Grossman --
[Pt.] 4: Adoption and the changing face of families. 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, translated by Sheng-Wei Wang ; Same & 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 Luscombe --
[Pt.] 5: Families across cultures. 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 --
[Pt.] 6 : Family, finances, and the economy. 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
