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The Changing American Family

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Partner:: New School
Location:: The New School
New York, NY
Event Date:: 04.02.08
Speakers:: Andrew Cherlin,; William Doherty,; Doyle McCarthy,; Arlene Skolnick
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Summary: The Changing American Family

The writings of social scientists and their popularizers reflect the dramatic changes that have taken place in marriage, child rearing, and family life in the United States. Where such writers once spoke simply of "the family," they now speak of "the diversity of family forms" and the rapidity with which those forms can change.

This panel offers objective and unsentimental views of the family and addresses basic questions about family life in the United States today. How do popular myths about family life compare with verifiable realities? What constitutes a marriage or a divorce? How do contemporary adult work patterns affect family life? Featuring Doyle McCarthy, professor of sociology at Fordham University and author of Knowledge as Culture; William Doherty, professor and director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program, Department of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota; Arlene Skolnick, visiting scholar, Sociology Department, NYU and author of Embattled Paradise; and Andrew J. Cherlin, John Hopkins University professor and author of Public and Private Families: An Introduction - The New School

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Andrew Cherlin

Andrew J. Cherlin is Griswold Professor of Public Policy in the department of sociology, Johns Hopkins University and author of Public and Private Families: An Introduction.

William Doherty

William Doherty is professor and director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program, Department of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota. He is involved in community based projects on families and parenting.

Doyle McCarthy

McCarthy is a social theorist working in the fields of the sociology of knowledge and culture and in the interdisciplinary field of emotion studies. She was Senior Editor of the International Journal of Politics, Culture & Society (1996-2000) and is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE). She currently serves on Fordham University's Institutional Review Board and is a board member of the Fordham University's Center for Ethics Education.

Arlene Skolnick

Arlene Skolnick is the author of Embattled Paradise: The American Family in an Age of Uncertainty. She is a visiting scholar at the New York University Department of Sociology and a senior fellow at the Council on Contemporary Families.

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01 hr 22 min 44 sec

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01.: Welcome

04 min 27 sec

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02.: Panel Introduction

02 min 57 sec

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03.: Unique U.S. Family Patterns

04 min 21 sec

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04.: Importance of Stability for Children

02 min 42 sec

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05.: The Way Marriage Is Valued

04 min 10 sec

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06.: Slow Down Relationships

01 min 46 sec

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07.: Greater Involvement of Fathers

04 min 02 sec

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08.: Disaggregation of Marriage and Parenthood

03 min 57 sec

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09.: Family Building Programs

04 min 13 sec

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10.: Decline of Moralized Family Values

04 min 09 sec

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11.: Family Rearrangement

04 min 16 sec

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12.: Dilemmas Regarding Families

02 min 40 sec

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13.: Gay Marriage

03 min 11 sec

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14.: Political Contradictions

04 min 44 sec

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15.: False Dichotomies

02 min 09 sec

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16.: Q & A

00 min 44 sec

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17.: Q1: Incarcerated Fathers

01 min 31 sec

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18.: Q2: Lack of Family Time

04 min 48 sec

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19.: Q3: Senior Citizens Who Don't Marry

02 min 56 sec

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20.: Q4: Support for Single Parents

03 min 03 sec

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21.: Q5: Rising Behavioral Disorders

02 min 58 sec

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22.: Q6: Overstructured Life

02 min 03 sec

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23.: Q7: Teachers Taking Parental Role

02 min 45 sec

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24.: Q8: Schools' Ability to Set Limits

01 min 44 sec

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25.: Q9: Changed Definition of Family

06 min 06 sec

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Andrew Cherlin on the Value of Marriage

04 min 36 sec

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Arlene Skolnick on Rearrangement of the Family

04 min 12 sec

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Parenthood Outside Stable Relationships

04 min 29 sec

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Encyclopædia Britannica Article

family: Basic social unit consisting of persons united by ties of marriage (affinity), “blood” (consanguinity), or adoption and usually representing a single household. The essence of the family group is the parent-child relationship, whose outlines vary widely among cultures. One prominent familial form is the nuclear family, consisting of the marital pair living with their offspring in a separate dwelling. While some scholars believe this to be the oldest form, others point to the inconclusive prehistorical record and the widespread existence of other forms such as the polygynous family (a husband, two or more wives, and their offspring) and the extended family (including at least parents, married children, and their offspring). The family as an institution provides for the rearing and socialization of children, the care of the aged, sick, or disabled, the legitimation of procreation, and the regulation of sexual conduct in addition to supplying basic physical, economic, and emotional security for its members. See also adoption; marriage.; family on britannica.com

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jainny

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Posted: 07.22.10, 10:41 PM

not bad
to know more about life

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MTGRAY

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Posted: 08.17.08, 03:48 PM

Changing the American Family?
what business would any family give to a socialist society that sends your children to war?.
hitlers youth was no different than the new game,
Plan Parenthood?. when one meets the experts of social behavior an what is correct to their point of fascist view creates more violence by the contradiction of their foot in the mouth false assume of other peoples lives.

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