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082 0 4 _a306.85/0973
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aHansen, Karen V.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aNot-So-Nuclear Families :
_bClass, Gender, and Networks of Care /
_cKaren V. Hansen.
264 1 _aNew Brunswick, NJ :
_bRutgers University Press,
_c[2004]
264 4 _c©2004
300 _a1 online resource (288 p.) :
_b2 figures, 7 tables
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Tables and Figures --
_tPreface and Acknowledgments --
_tChapter 1. Networks of Interdependence in an Age of Independence --
_tPart I. Profiles of Four Networks of Interdependence --
_tChapter 2. The Cranes: An Absorbent Safety Net --
_tChapter 3. The Aldriches: A Family Foundation --
_tChapter 4. The Duvall-Brennans: A Loose Association of Advisors --
_tChapter 5. The Beckers: A Warm Web of People --
_tPart II. Constructing and Maintaining Networks --
_tChapter 6. Staging Networks: Inclusion and Exclusion --
_tChapter 7. The Tangle of Reciprocity --
_tChapter 8. Men, Women, and the Gender of Caregiving --
_tConclusion --
_tAppendix --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex --
_tAbout the Author
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn recent years U.S. public policy has focused on strengthening the nuclear family as a primary strategy for improving the lives of America's youth. It is often assumed that this normative type of family is an independent, self-sufficient unit adequate for raising children. But half of all households in the United States with young children have two employed parents. How do working parents provide care and mobilize the help that they need? In Not-So-Nuclear Families: Class, Gender, and Networks of Care, Karen V. Hansen investigates the lives of working parents and the informal networks they construct to help care for their children. She chronicles the conflicts, hardships, and triumphs of four families of various social classes. Each must navigate the ideology that mandates that parents, mothers in particular, rear their own children, in the face of an economic reality that requires that parents rely on the help of others. In vivid family stories, parents detail how they and their networks of friends, paid caregivers, and extended kin collectively close the "care gap" for their school-aged children. Hansen not only debunks the myth that families in the United States are independent, isolated, and self-reliant units, she breaks new theoretical ground by asserting that informal networks of care can potentially provide unique and valuable bonds that nuclear families cannot.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.36019/9780813557793
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