Families in Global and Multicultural Perspective

Bron Ingoldsby is Associate Professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University. He received his Ph.D. in Child and Family Development from the University of Georgia. A leader in the area of cross-cultural family research, he is the author of numerous professional publications, including (with Raeann Hamon) Mate Selection Across Cultures. His current work focuses on family change among the Hutterian Brethren, and marriage in Latin America. He is a popular instructor of Cross Cultural Family classes at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. He was honored as the 2002 recipient of the Jan Trost Award for Outstanding Contributions to Comparative Family Studies by the National Council on Family Relations. He has served twice on the NCFR board as the chair of the International and Religion & Family Life sections. Suzanna Smith is Associate Professor in the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences at the University of Florida. She has a Ph.D. in Child and Family Development and a Master′s Degree in Social Work; and is a Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE). In addition to teaching, Dr. Smith develops Extension programs for families through the Florida Cooperative Extension Service. Her research has focused on difficult economic transitions and the impacts on women and their families, particularly in rural and natural resource dependent communities. She also has experience in human services, offering resources and support to children, women, families, and the elderly in need. Her international work has included research and training programs in Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Haiti, and Korea, as well as coursework for international students and faculty.

The editors, both qualified scholars with a comparative perspective, have been successful in finding well-known authors for the various chapters. Both theoretical and methodological issues are dealt with in a nuanced and qualified manner. Comparative perspectives are on an historical as well as a global manner. The book is to be highly recommended to students, faculty and libraries.

• Part I. Foundations of Comparative Family Studies1. Global Families - Suzanna Smith2. Comparative Family Research Methodology - Gary Lee, Nancy Greenwood3. The History of the Euro-Western Family - Bron IngoldsbyPart 1 Exercise: Comparative Family Research StudyPart II. Family Structure4. Family Origin and Universality - Bron Ingoldsby5. Patterns of Kinship and Residence - Max Stanton6. Marital Structure - Bron Ingoldsby7. Religious Utopias and Family Structure - Bron IngoldsbyPart 2 Exercise: The Ethnic GenogramPart III. Family Development8. Mate Selection and Marriage - Bron Ingoldsby9. Parenting Practices Worldwide - Judith Myers-Walls, Karen Myers-Bowman, German Posada10. International Divorce - Patrick McKenry, Sharon Price11. Diversity in International Aging Families - Richard Miller, William MeredithPart 3 Exercise: Mate SelectionPart IV. International Family Variation12. Asian and Latino Immigrant Families - Walter Kawamoto, Rueben Anguiano13. Families in the Islamic Middle East - Bahira Sherif-Trask 14. Families in sub-Saharan Africa - Stephan Wilson, Lucy Ngige15. Families in Latin America - Bron Ingoldsby16. Families in Japan - Colleen Murray, Naoko KimuraPart 4 Exercise: The Story of Jose and LanaPart V. Social Inequality in the Contemporary World17. Native American Families - Tamara Cheshire18. Women in the Two-Thirds World - Sandra Russo, Suzanna Smith19. Household Division of Labor in Industrial Societies - Linda Haas20. Poverty and Family Policy in a Global Context - Mark Rank, Gautam YadamaPart 5 Exercise: The Arias Family