Book Reviews

“Poppa” Psychology: The Role of Fathers in Children's Mental Well‐Being. Vicky Phares. Black Men and Divorce. Erma Jean Lawson & Aaron Thompson. Crossing the Line: Interracial Couples in the South. Robert P. McNamara, Maria Tempenis, & Beth Walton. Indicators of Children's Well‐Being. Robert M. Hauser, Brett V. Brown, & William R. Prosser (Eds.). The Scientific Basis of Child Custody Decisions. Robert M. Galatzer‐Levy & Louis Kraus (Eds.). The Third Job: Employed Couples' Management of Household Work Contradictions. Gurjeet K. Gill. Children's Adjustment to Adoption: Developmental and Clinical Issues. David M. Brodzinsky, Daniel W. Smith, & Anne B. Brodzinsky. Till Death Do Us Part: A Multicultural Anthology on Marriage. Sandra Lee Browning & R. Robin Miller (Eds.). Taking Time: Parental Leave Policy and Corporate Culture. Mindy Fried. Battered Women, Children, and Welfare Reform: The Ties that Bind. Ruth A. Brandwein (Ed.). Women, Families, and HIV/AIDS: A Sociological Perspective on the Epidemic in America. Carole A. Campbell. The Changing Family in Comparative Perspective: Asia and the United States. Karen Oppenheim Mason, Noriko O. Tsuya, & Minja Kim Choe (Eds.). Intimacy: Personal Relationships in Modern Societies. Lynn Jamieson. Relationships as Developmental Contexts. W. Andrew Collins & Brett Laursen (Eds.). Attachment Theory and Close Relationships. Jeffry A. Simpson & W. Steven Rholes (Eds.). The Custody Wars: Why Children Are Losing the Legal Battle and What We Can Do About It. Mary Ann Mason. Book Review Editor's note: Copies of the book, The Postdivorce Family The Postdivorce Family: Children, Parenting, and Society. Ross A. Thompson & Paul R. Amato (Eds.). Marriage, Divorce, and Children's Adjustment (2nd ed.). Robert E. Emery. The Postdivorce Family: Children, Parenting, and Society. Ross A. Thompson & Paul R. Amato (Eds.). Undercurrents of Divorce. Shelley Day Sclater & Christine Piper (Eds.). Problem Solving in Families: Research and Practice. Samuel Vuchinich.     

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Children in Changing Families: Life After Parental Separation. Jan Pryor & Bryan Rogers. Women Without Children: Nurturing Lives. Yvonne Vissing. New Brunswick. For Better or for Worse: Divorce Reconsidered. E. Mavis Hetherington & John Kelly. The Birth of Pleasure. Carol Gilligan. Making Men Into Fathers: Men, Masculinities and the Social Politics of Fatherhood. Barbara Hobson (Ed.). Taking Parenting Public: The Case for a New Social Movement. Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Nancy Rankin, & Cornel West (Eds.). Pit Women: Coal Communities in Northern England in the Early Twentieth Century. Griselda Carr. Championing Child Care. Sally S. Cohen. Caring and Doing for Others. Alice S. Rossi (Ed.).     

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Changing Families, Changing Responsibilities: Family Obligations Following Divorce and Remarriage. Lawrence H. Ganong & Marilyn Coleman. Marriages in Russia: Couples During the Economic Transition. Dana Vannoy, Natalia Rimashevskaya, Lisa Cubbins, Marina Malysheva, Elena Meshterkina, & Marina Pisklakova. Parenting in Stepfamilies: Social Attitudes, Parental Perceptions and Parenting Behavior in Hong Kong. Gladys Lan Tak Lam‐Chan. Understanding Domestic Homicide. Neil Websdale. Handbook of Marriage and the Family (2nd ed.) Marvin B. Sussman, Suzanne K. Steinmetz, & Gary W. Peterson (Eds.). Violence in Homes and Communities: Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment. Thomas P. Gullotta & Sandra J. McElhaney (Eds.). Family: The Making of an Idea, an Institution, and a Controversy in American Culture. Betty G. Farrell.     

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Family Experiences With Mental Illness. Richard Tessler and Gail Gamache. Close Relationships: A Sourcebook. Clyde Hendrick and Susan S. Hendrick (Eds.). Family Observational Coding Systems. Patricia K. Kerig and Kristin M. Lindahl (Eds.). Families and Change: Coping With Stressful Events and Transitions (2nd ed.). Patrick C. McKenry and Sharon J. Price (Eds.). Family, Religion, and Social Change in Diverse Societies. Sharon K. Houseknecht and Jerry G. Pankhurst (Eds.). Nurturing Success: Successful Women of Color and Their Daughters. Essie E. Lee. Beyond Gender Differences: Adaptation to Aging in Life Course Perspective. Laurie Russell Hatch. Becoming a Family: Parents' Stories and Their Implications for Practice, Policy, and Research. Rena D. Harold, Lisa G. Colarossi, Lucy R. Mercier, Patricia Stow Bolea, Carol R. Freedman‐Doan, Susan A. Lynch, Margaret L. Palmiter, and Jacquelynne S. Eccles. The Ties That Bind: Perspectives on Marriage and Cohabitation. Linda J. Waite (Ed.).     

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Women, Work and Care of the Elderly. Elizabeth A. Watson & Jane Mears. Conflict and Cohesion in Families: Causes and Consequences. Martha J. Cox & Jeanne Brooks‐Gunn (Eds.). Marriage in a Culture of Divorce. Karla B. Hackstaff. Ethics in American Adoption. L. Anne Babb. Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief. Pauline Boss. Violence in Intimate Relationships. Ximena B. Arriaga & Stuart Oskamp (Eds.). Work and Family: Research Informing Policy. Toby L. Parcel & Daniel B. Cornfield (Eds.). Mothers at Work: Effects on Children's Well‐Being. Lois W. Hoffman & Lisa M. Youngblad. The Changing Transition to Adulthood: Leaving and Returning Home. Francis Goldscheider & Calvin Goldscheider. Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications. Jude Cassidy & Phillip R. Shaver (Eds.). Handbook of the Sociology of Gender. Janet Saltzman Chafetz (Ed.). Gender, Emotion, and the Family. Leslie Brody. West Meets East: Americans Adopt Chinese Children. Richard Tessler, Gail Gamache, & Liming Liu. Understanding Elder Abuse in Minority Populations. Toshio Tatara (Ed.). Revolutions of the Heart: Gender, Power and the Delusions of Love. Wendy Langford. Aging and Male Sexuality. Raul C. Schiavi. Nowhere to Grow: Homeless and Runaway Adolescents and Their Families. Les B. Whitbeck & Dan R. Hoyt. Weaving Work and Motherhood. Anita Ilta Garey. Queer Family Values: Debunking the Myth of the Nuclear Family. Valerie Lehr.     

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Families at Work: Expanding the Bounds, Naomi Gerstel, Dan Clawson, & Robert Zussman (Eds.). Nashville, TN: The Package Deal: Marriage, Work, and Fatherhood in Men's Lives. Nicholas W. Townsend. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Inside the American Couple: New Thinking, New Challenges. Marilyn Yalom & Laura L. Carstensen (Eds.); Estelle Freedman & Barbara Gelpi (Consulting Eds.). My Baby's Father: Unmarried Parents and Paternal Responsibility. Maureen R. Waller. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 2002. Invisible Caregivers: Older Adults Raising Children in the Wake of HIV/AIDS. Daphne Joslin (Ed.). Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval. Merry Isaacs White. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2000. The Decline of Substance Use in Young Adulthood: Changes in Social Activities, Roles, and Beliefs. Jerald G. Bachman, Patrick M. O'Malley, John E. Schulenberg, Lloyd D. Johnston, Alison L. Bryant, & Alicia C. Merline. Mahwah, NJ: Remaking Chinese America: Immigration, Family and Community, 1940–1965. Xiaojian Zhao. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.     

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The Case for Marriage: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially. Linda J. Waite & Maggie Gallagher. Families as Relationships. Robert M. Milardo & Steve Duck (Eds.). Redefining Family Policy: Implications for the 21 st Century. Joyce M. Mercier, Stephen B. Garasky, & Mack C. Shelley II (Eds.). Why Parents Matter: Parental Investment and Child Outcomes. Nigel Barber. Earning and Caring in Canadian Families. Roderic Beaujot. Who Owns Domestic Abuse?: The Local Politics of a Social Problem. Ruth M. Mann. The Dynamics of Adoption: Social and Personal Perspectives. Amal Treacher & Ilan Katz (Eds.). Aging in East and West: Families, States, and the Elderly. Vern L. Bengtson, Kyong‐Dong Kim, George C. Myers, & Ki‐Soo Eun (Eds.). Who Should Care for the Elderly? An East‐West Value Divide. William T. Liu & Hal Kendig (Eds.).     

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The Black Family: Essays and Studies (6th edition). Robert Staples (Ed). Premarital Prediction of Marital Quality or Breakup: Research, Theory, and Practice. Thomas B. Holman. Growing Up Protestant: Parents, Children, and Mainline Churches. Margaret Lamberts Bendroth. Family and Community in Ireland. Conrad M. Arensberg & Solon T. Kimball (with a new introduction by Anne Byrne, Ricca Edmondson, & Tony Varley). America's Childcare Problem: The Way Out. Suzanne W. Helburn & Barbara R. Bergmann. Marriage: Just a Piece of Paper? Katherine Anderson, Don Browning, & Brian Boyer (Eds.). Women, Work, and Family: Balancing and Weaving. Angela Hattery. Starting at Home: Caring and Social Policy. Nel Noddings. Putting Work in Its Place: A Quiet Revolution. Peter Meiksins & Peter Whalley.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Berg, I. K. (1994). Family based services: A solution-focused approach. Cole, R. E., & Reiss, D. (Eds.). (1993). How do families cope with chronic illness? Rolland, J.S. (1994). Families, illness, and disability: An integrative treatment model. Golden, H., & Goldenberg, I. (1994). Counseling today's families (2nd ed.). O'Farrell, T.J. (Ed.). Treating alcohol problems: Marital and family interventions. Hydén, M. (1994). Woman battering as marital act: The construction of a violent marriage. Bepko, C., & Krestam, J. (1993). Singing at the top of our lungs: Women, love, and creativity. Garrity, C. B., & Barris, M. A. (1994). Caught in the middle: Protecting the children of high-Conflict divorce. Midgley, J., & Midgley S., (1992). A decision to love: A marriage preparation program. Schaefer, C. E., & DiGeronimo, T. F. (1994). How to talk to your kids about really important things: Specific questions, answers and useful things to say. Directions in Marriage and Family Therapy. (1993). Authors: D. A. Bagarozzi & F. Flach.     

Independent Comment on Audio‐Visual and Print Materials

Book reviewed in this article: 101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens: Using Metaphors in Therapy. George W. Burns Attachment Processes in Couple and Family Therapy. Susan Johnson and Valerie Whiffen (Eds) An Introduction to Marriage and Family Therapy. Lorna L. Hecker and Joseph L. Wetchler (Eds) Experiential Psychotherapy with Couples — A Guide for the Creative Pragmatist. Rob Fisher The Practical Practice of Marriage and Family Therapy: Things My Training Supervisor Never Told Me. Mark Odell & Charles E. Campbell Using Workbooks in Mental Health: Resources in Prevention, Psychotherapy and Rehabilitation for Clinicians and Researchers. Luciano L'Abate (Ed.) The Therapy Triangle: Empowering You with the Knowledge to Heal Emotional Cutoff: Bowen Family Systems Theory Perspectives. Peter Titelman (Ed.) Clinical Applications of Bowen Family Systems Theory. Peter Titelman (Ed.)     

Book Reviews

Family Ties and Aging. Ingrid Arnet Connidis. Halving It All: How Equally Shared Parenting Works. Francine M. Deutsch. The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued. Ann Crittenden. Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation. Nancy F. Cott. Care Work: Gender, Labor and the Welfare State. Madonna Harrington Meyer, ed. Working Families: The Transformation of the American Home. Rosanna Hertz and Nancy L. Marshall, eds. From Culture Wars to Common Ground: Religion and the American Family Debate (2nd ed). Don S. Browning, Bonnie J. Miller‐McLemore, Pamela D. Couture, K. Brynolf Lyon, and Robert M. Franklin. Gay and Lesbian Parenting. Deborah F. Glazer and Jack Drescher (eds.). Remaking the Godly Marriage: Gender Negotiation in Evangelical Families. John P. Bartkowski.     

Book Reviews

Reinventing the Family: In Search of New Lifestyles. Elisabeth Beck‐Gernsheim. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in Colonial New England. Gloria L. Main. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Woman‐to‐Woman Sexual Violence: Does She Call It Rape? Lori B. Girshick. Boston: Northeastern University Press. The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture. Elizabeth Freeman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2002. Same‐Sex Marriage, Legal Mobilization, and the Politics of Rights. Martin Dupuis. New York: Peter Lang. 2002. Symbolic Childhood, Daniel Thomas Cook (Ed.). New York: Peter Lang. 2002. Infertility Around the Globe: New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender, and Reproductive Technologies. Marcia C. Inhorn & Frank van Balen (Eds). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 2002. Evangelical Identity and Gendered Family Life. Sally K. Gallagher. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2003.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Barker, Robert L. Treating couples in crisis.
Taub-Bynum, E. Bruce. The family unconscious: "An invisible bond."
Ziffer, Robert L. (Ed.). Adjunctive techniques in family therapy.
Kaslow, F. W. and Ridenour, R. I. (Eds.). The military family: Dynamics and treatment.
Grunwald, Bernice and McAbee, Harold. Guiding the family: Practical counseling techniques.
Nadelson, Carol, C. and Polonsky, Derek C. (Eds). Marriage and divorce: A contemporary perspective.
Haley, Jay (Ed.). Conversations With Milton H. Erickson (Volumes I, II, III).
Schwartzman, John (Ed.). Families and other systems.
Freeman, Dorothy. Marital crisis and short-term counseling.
Mazor, Miriam D., MD and Simons, Harriet F. (Eds.). Infertility: Medical, Emotional and Social Considerations.     

BOOK REVIEWS

ABSTRACT

A PASSAGE TO THE HEART: WRITINGS FROM FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN FROM CHINA. Klatzkin, Amy (Ed.). Saint Paul, MN: Yeong & Yeong Book Co., 1999, 341 pp., Hardcover ISBN 0-9638472-2-8, $19.95. Reviewed by Patricia Irwin Johnston.

I WISH FOR YOU A BEAUTIFUL LIFE: LETTERS FROM THE KOREAN BIRTH MOTHERS OF AE RAN WON TO THEIR CHILDREN. Dorow, Sara (Ed.). Saint Paul, MN: Yeong & Yeong Book Co., 1999, 135 pp., Hardcover ISBN 0-9638472-2-8, $18.95. Reviewed by Patricia Irwin Johnston.

PARENTS AT LAST: CELEBRATING ADOPTION AND THE NEW PATHWAYS TO PARENTHOOD. Peck, Cynthia V. N., and Wendy Wilkinson. New York: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 1998, 160 pp., Hardcover ISBN 0-609-60290-X, $27.50. Reviewed by Patricia Irwin Johnston.

CLINICAL AND PRACTICE ISSUES IN ADOPTION: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN ADOPTEES PLACED AS INFANTS AND AS OLDER CHILDREN. Groza, Victor and Karen F. Rosenberg (Eds.). Westport, CT: Praeger, 175 pp., Hardcover ISBN 0-275-95816-7, $55.00. Reviewed by Ulrich Mueller.

KINSHIP FOSTER CARE: POLICY, PRACTICE, AND RESEARCH. Hegar, Rebecca L., and Maria Scannapieco (Eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, Hardcover ISBN 0195109392, $45. Paperback ISBN 0195109406, $19.95. Reviewed by Ulrich Mueller.     

Classic Book Reviews: The Past Revived

Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture. R. S. Lynd & H. M. Lynd. Predicting Success or Failure in Marriage. E. W. Burgess & L. S. Cottrell, Jr. Family, Socialization and Interaction Process. T. Parsons & R. F. Bales. The Social Psychology of Groups. J. W. Thibaut & H. H. Kelley. Husbands and Wives. Dynamics of Married Living. R. O. Blood & D. M. Wolfe. World Revolution and Family Patterns. W. J. Goode. Blue‐Collar Marriage. M. Komarovsky. Emerging Conceptual Frameworks in Family Analysis. F. I. Nye & F. M. Berardo (Eds.). Family and Social Network(2nd ed.). E. Bott. The Future of Marriage. J. S. Bernard. All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community. C. B. Stack. Children of the Great Depression. G. H. Elder. Inside the Family: Toward a Theory of Family Process. D. Kantor & W. Lehr. A Treatise on the Family. G. S. Becker.     

MEDIA REVIEWS

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ANGELS IN AMERICA (2004). Kushner, Tony. DVD. Home Box Office, Inc. 352 minutes. Reviewed by Jamie Skerski Department of Communication & Culture Reviewed by Alyssa Ann Samek.

CURRENT RESEARCH ON BISEXUALITY (2004). Fox, R. C. (Ed.). Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park Press. Reviewed by Alyssa Ann Samek.

FAMILIES LIKE MINE. Garner, A. (2004). New York, NY: Harper Collins. Reviewed by Scott A. Simpson.     

Book Reviews

Women's Work Is Never Done: Comparative Studies in Care‐Giving, Employment, and Social Policy Reform. Sylvia Bashevkin. (Ed.) Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging. Margaret Cruikshank. How Families Still Matter: A Longitudinal Study of Youth in Two Generations. Vern L. Bengtson, Timothy J. Biblarz, & Robert E. L. Roberts. New Family Values: Liberty, Equality, Diversity. Karen Struening. Involved Fathering and Men's Adult Development: Provisional Balances. Rob Palkovitz. For Better and for Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well‐Being of Children and Families. Greg J. Duncan & P. Lindsay Chase‐Lansdale. (Eds.) The Power of Good Deeds: Privileged Women and the Social Reproduction of the Upper Class. Diana Kendall. Child Care and Inequality: Rethinking Carework for Children and Youth. Francesca M. Cancian, Demie Kurz, Andrew S. London, Rebecca Reviere, & Mary C. Tuominen.     

Reviews and abstracts

Felstein, Ivor. Sex and the longer life. London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press. 1970. pp. 143, $4.95.

Gallino, Tilde Giani. Il sesso e l'adolescente (Sex and the adolescent). Torino, Italy: Ediscientifica S.F.A. Settore Editoriale, 1971. Student text 103 pp. 2500 lire. Instructor's manual 60 pp. 2000 lire.

Greenwald, Harold and Ruth Greenwald (Eds.). The Sex‐Life Letters, Los Angeles: J. P. Tarcher, Inc. 1972, Distributed by Crown Publishers, Inc., N.Y. XXV & 436 pp.

Kuiper, P. C., M.D. The Neuroses. A Psychoanalytic Survey. New York: International Universities Press, 1972. 261 pages. $9.00.

Lieberman, Bernhardt (Ed.). Human Sexual Behavior—A Book of Readings. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1971. 444 pages.

Martin, Del and Phyllis Lyon. San Francisco, California: Glide Publications, 1972. 283 pp; hardcover $7.95.

Neubardt, Selig, M.D. and Harold Schulman, M.D. Techniques of Abortion. Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Co. 172 pages. $11.50.

Orth, Penelope. An Enviable Position. New York: David McKay Co., 1972. 303 pages. $7.95.

Zatuchini, Gerald I. (Ed). Post‐partum Planning: A Report on the International Program. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., 1970. XXX and 477 pp.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Bentovim, Arnon, Barnes, Gill Gorell, and Cooklin, Alan (Eds.). Family therapy: Complementary frameworks of theory and practice (Vols. 1&2).
Leff, Julian and Vaughn, Christine. Expressed emotion in families: Its significance for mental illness.
Gurman, Alan S. (Ed.). Casebook of marital therapy.
Kaufman, Edward (Ed.). Power to change: Family case studies in the treatment of alcoholism.
Vincent, John P. (Ed.). Advances in family intervention, assessment and theory (Vol. 2).
Minuchin, Salvador. Family kaleidoscope.
Coleman, Sandra B. (Ed.). Failures in family therapy.