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Families in Focus: New Perspectives on Mothers, Fathers, and Children
Despite the rhetoric of recent years lamenting the loss of the traditional family, families have never fit nicely into any single model. Family may refer to people linked by marriage or kinship or to people claiming descent from common ancestors. People may form and extend families by adopting or fostering children, defining nonrelatives as family, or establishing consensual partnerships. Families are as adaptable as they are diverse, reconfiguring themselves over their life cycles and evolving to accommodate the myriad pressures of the external world. This book focuses on families with dependent children specifically—on the roles of mothers, fathers, and children, and how these roles are evolving. We do not discount the value of understanding more about how the elderly are cared for, the role of extended kin in the support of children, the intricacies of sibling relationships, and the creative power of friendship to provide some of the comforts of family. Our primary emphasis, however, is on how fathers and mothers meet their parental responsibilities and, in turn, what children have a right to expect from their parents
La Familia en la Mira: Nuevas Perspectivas Sobre Madres, Padres e Hijos
A pesar de la retórica de los últimos años que lamenta la pérdida de la familia tradicional, las familias jamás se han podido encajonar en modelo único. Familia puede referirse a la gente que se ha vinculado entre sà por matrimonio o parentesco, o a los que pretenden descender de antecesores comunes. Las personas pueden formar y extender familias, ya sea mediante la adoptación o crianza de niños, o definiendo como familiares a gente no emparentada o mediante el establecimiento de sociedades consensuales. Las familias son tan adaptables como diversas, pues se reconfiguran a sà mismas en el transcurso de sus ciclos de vitales y se desarrollan para adecuarse a las innumerables presiones del mundo exterior. Este libro se enfoca especÃficamente en las familias con hijos dependientes—en los roles de madres, padres e hijos, y en la evolución de dichos roles. No menospreciamos el valor de una comprensión más profunda acerca de cómo cuidar a los ancianos, del papel de la familia extensa en la manutención de los niños, de los embrollos de las relaciones entre hermanos, ni del poder creativo de la amistad que proporciona algunas de las satisfacciones propias de la familia. No obstante, nuestro énfasis principal está en la manera en que padres y madres asumen sus responsabilidades ante sus hijos y, a su vez, qué es lo que los niños tienen derecho a esperar de sus padres.
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Despite the rhetoric of recent years lamenting the loss of the traditional family, families have never fit nicely into any single model. Family may refer to people linked by marriage or kinship or to people claiming descent from common ancestors. People may form and extend families by adopting or fostering children, defining nonrelatives as family, or establishing consensual partnerships. Families are as adaptable as they are diverse, reconfiguring themselves over their life cycles and evolving to accommodate the myriad pressures of the external world. This book focuses on families with dependent children specifically—on the roles of mothers, fathers, and children, and how these roles are evolving. We do not discount the value of understanding more about how the elderly are cared for, the role of extended kin in the support of children, the intricacies of sibling relationships, and the creative power of friendship to provide some of the comforts of family. Our primary emphasis, however, is on how fathers and mothers meet their parental responsibilities and, in turn, what children have a right to expect from their parents