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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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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Transitions to Adulthood in a Changing Economy: No Work, No Family, No Future? Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter, & Michael J. Shanahan (Eds.). All Our Families: New Policies for a New Century. Mary Ann Mason, Arlene Skolnick, & Stephen D. Sugarman (Eds.). The Family On the Threshold of the 21st Century: Trends and Implications. Solly Dreman (Ed.). Stepfamilies: Love, Marriage, and Parenting in the First Decade. James H. Bray & John Kelly. Coping with Divorce, Single Parenting, and Remarriage: A Risk and Resiliency Perspective. E. Mavis Hetherington (Ed.). Resiliency in Native American and Immigrant Families. Hamilton I. McCubbin, Elizabeth A. Thompson, Anne I. Thompson, & Julie E. Fromer (Eds.). Marriage in Men's Lives. Steven L. Nock.     

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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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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 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.     

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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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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.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article:
Selvini, Matteo (Ed.). The work of Mara Selvini Palazzoli.
Selvini, Palazzoli, Mara, Cirillo, Stefano, Selvini, Matteo, & Sorrentino, Anna Maria. Family games: General models of psychotic processes in the family.
Epstein, Norman, Schlesinger, Stephen E., and Dryden, Windy (Eds.). Cognitive-behavioral therapy with families.
Falloon, Ian R. H. (Ed.). Handbook of behavioral family therapy.
Imber-Black, Evan. Families and larger systems.
Nichols, William C., and Everett, Craig A. Systemic family therapy: An integrative approach.     

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Handbook of Family Measurement Techniques. John Touliatos, Barry F. Perlmutter, and Murray A. Straus. Handbook of Family Development and Intervention. William Nichols, Mary Anne Pace‐Nichols, Dorothy Becvar, and Augustus Napier (Eds.). Celebrating the Family: Ethnicity, Consumer Culture and Family Ritual. Elizabeth Pleck. Making Babies, Making Families: What Matters Most in an Age of Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy, Adoption, and Same Sex and Unwed Parents. Mary Lyndon Shanley. Black Working Wives: Pioneers of the American Family Revolution. Bart Landry. Elder Abuse in the Family: An Interdisciplinary Model for Research. Frances Merchant Carp. Parental Grief: Narratives of Loss and Relationship. Paul C. Rosenblatt.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Carter, B. and McGoldrick, M. (Eds.). The changing family life cycle: A framework for family therapy
Falicov, C. J. (Ed.). Family transitions: Continuity and change over the life cycle.
Walters, M., Carter, E., Papp, P. and Silverstein, O. The invisible web: Gender patterns in family relationships.
Luepnitz, D. A. The family interpreted: Feminist theory in clinical practice.
Jacob, Theodore. Family interaction and psychopathology: Theories, methods, and findings.
Napier, Augustus Y. The fragile bond: In search of an equal, intimate and enduring marriage.
Solomon, Marion F. Narcissism and intimacy: Love and marriage in an age of confusion.
Fishman, H. Charles & Rosman, Bernice L. (Eds.). Evolving models for family change: A volume in honor of Salvador Minuchin.
Toman, W Family therapy and sibling position.
Hoopes, M. M. & Harper, J. M. Birth order roles and sibling patterns in individual and family therapy.
Kahn, M. D. & Lewis, K. G. (Eds.) Siblings in therapy.
Liddle, H. A., Breunlin, D. C. & Schwartz, R. C. (Eds.). Handbook of family therapy training and supervision.
Weeks, Gerald R., & Hof, Larry (Eds.). Integrating sex and marital therapy.     

Book Reviews

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.).     

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.     

Independent comment on Audio‐visual and Print Materials

Book reviewed in this article: Psychology and Psychiatry: Integrating Medical Practice Jeannette Milgrom, Graham D. Burrows (Eds.) Systhema — Opinion, Exchange, Discussions. Edition 3: 2000 — Disability, Illness, Death. Institut für Familientherapie Weinheim/Germany Memory in Dispute Valerie Sinason (Ed.) Women Who Sexually Abuse Children: From Research to Clinical Practice Jacqui Saradjian in association with Helgar Hanks Culture and Mental Health: A Southern African View Leslie Swartz The Learning about Myself (LAMS) Program for At‐Risk Parents: Learning from the Past — Changing the Future Verna Rickard, Binghamton The Learning about Myself (LAMS) Program for At‐Risk Parents: Handbook for Group Participants Verna Rickard, Binghamton Family Counselling and Therapy 3rd edn Arthur M. Horne (Ed.) Beyond Belief: Psychotherapy and Religion Samuel Stein (Ed.) Couples and the Tao of Congruence Barbara Jo Brothers (Ed.) Lesbians and Gays in Couples and Families: A Handbook for Therapists Joan Laird, Robert‐Jay Green (Eds)     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article:
Fanning, P., & McKay, M. (Eds.). Family guide to emotional wellness: Proven self-help techniques and exercises for dealing with common problems and building crucial life skills.
Leiblum, S., & Rosen, R. (2000) (Eds.). Principles and practice of sex therapy (3rd ed.).
Sturkie, K., & Bergen, L.P. (2001). Professional regulation in marital and family therapy.
Kaslow, F. (Ed.). (2000). Handbook of couple and family forensics: A sourcebook for mental health and legal professionals.     

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:
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.     

Independent Comment on Audio‐visual and Print Materials

Book reviewed in this article: Feminist Family Therapy: Empowerment in Social Context. Louise B. Silverstein & Thelma Jean Goodrich (Eds) How it Feels to Have a Gay or Lesbian Parent: A Book by Kids for Kids of all Ages. Judith Snow The Internal and External Worlds of Children and Adolescents: Collaborative Therapeutic Care. Lesley Day & Denis Flynn (Ed.) Children's Solutions Work. Insoo Kim Berg and Therese Steiner Spiritual Resources in Family Therapy. Froma Walsh (Ed.) In the Firing Line: Violence and Power in Child Protection Work. Janet Stanley and Chris Goddard Sperm Wars: The Rights and Wrongs of Reproduction Heather Grace Jones and Maggie Kirkman (Eds) The Work/Life Collision. Barbara Pocock, Annandale, NSW, The Federation Press     

Book Review

Book reviewed in this article: Farrelly, Frank, and Brandsma, Jeff. Provocative therapy. Gomberg, Edith S. and Franks, Violet, (Eds). Gender and disordered behavior: Sex differences in psychopathology. Gordon, David; Therapeutic metaphors. Grinder, John and Bandler, Richard. The structure of magic II. Headley, Lee Adults and their parents in family therapy: A new direction in treatment. Kilgore, James E. Try marriage before divorce. LoPiccolo, Joseph and LoPiccolo, Leslie. Handbook of sex therapy. McCubbin, Hamilton I, Dahl, Barbara B., and Hunter, Edna J. Families in the military system. Rueveni, Uri; Networking families in crisis. Sager, Clifford J. & Hunt, Bernice. Intimate partners: Hidden patterns in love relationships. Wells, J.G. Current issues in marriage and the family.     

The First Thirty Years of Family Therapy

Gurman, Alan S. and Kniskern, David P. (Eds.) Handbook of Family Therapy .
Howells, John G. (Ed.). Advances in Family Psychiatry: Volume 1.
Pollak, Otto and Wise, Ellen S. Invitation to a Dialogue: Union and separation in family life .
Stierlin, Helm, Rücker-Embden, Ingeborg, Wetzel, Norbert and Wirsching, Michael. The First Interview with the Family .