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Andrew J. Cherlin is Benjamin H. Griswold III Professor of Public Policy and Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. He received a B.S. from Yale University in 1970 and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1976. He is the author of the McGraw-Hill textbook, Public and Private Families: An Introduction. His other books include Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage (revised and enlarged edition, 1992), Divided Families: What Happens to Children when Parents Part (with Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., 1991), The Changing American Family and Public Policy (1988), and The New American Grandparent: A Place in the Family, A Life Apart (with Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., 1986). In 1989-1990 he was chair of the Family Section of the American Sociological Association. In 1999 he was president of the Population Association of America, the scholarly organization for demographic research. In 2005, Professor Cherlin was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He recived the Distinguished Career Award in 2003 from the Family Section of the American Sociological Association. In 2001, he received the Olivia S. Nordberg Award for Excellence in Writing in the Population Sciences; and in 1999, he was President of the Population Association of America. He has also received a Merit Award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for his research on the effects of family structure on children. His recent articles include "The Deinstitutionalization of American Marriage," in the Journal of Marriage and Family; "The Influence of Physical and Sexual Abuse on Marriage and Cohabitation," in the American Sociological Review; and "American Marriage in the Early Twenty-First Century," in The Future of Children. He also has written many articles for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Newsweek, and other periodicals. He has been interviewed on ABC News Nightline, the Today Show, network evening news programs, National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and other news programs and documentaries.

Part One Introduction 1. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FAMILIES The Family in Trouble: Since When? For Whom?, Claude S. Fischer and Michael Hout From Role to Self: The Emergence of Androgynous Love in the 20th Century, Francesca M. Cancian 2. THE HISTORY OF THE FAMILY What's Love Got to Do with It? A Brief History of Marriage, Stephanie Coontz Growing Up Is Harder to Do, Frank F. Furstenberg Jr., Sheela Kennedy, Vonnie C. McLoyd, Ruben G. Rumbaut, and Richard A. Settersten Jr. Part Two Gender, Class, and Race-Ethnicity 3. GENDER AND FAMILIES Doing Gender, Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman Betwixt and Be Tween: Gender Contradictions among Middle Schoolers, Barbara J. Risman and ELizabeth Seale 4. SOCIAL CLASS AND FAMILIES Blue-Collar Blues/White-Collar Weddings, Andrew J. Cherlin Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families, Annette Lareau 5. RACE, ETHNICITY, AND FAMILIES Why Won't African Americans Get (and Stay) Married? Why Should They?, Shirley A. Hill Breaking the Last Taboo: Interracial Marriage in America, Zhenchao Qian Part Three Sexuality, Partnership and Marriage 6. SEXUALITIES Sexual Desire and Gender, Pepper Schwartz and Virginia Rutter Living Apart Together: A New Family Form, Irene Levin 7. COHABITATION AND MARRIAGE "Everything's There Except Money": How Money Shapes Decisions to Marry among Cohabitors, Pamela J. Smock, Wendy D. Manning, and Meredith Porter Unmarried with Children, Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas 8. WORK AND FAMILIES The Work-Home Crunch, Kathleen Gerson and Jerry A. Jacobs The Odd Disconnect: Our Family-Hostile Public Policy, Joan C. Williams Part Four Links across the Generations 9. CHILDREN AND PARENTS Fragile Families and the Reproduction of Poverty, Sara McLanahan Migrant Time versus Child Time, Joanna Dreby 10. OLDER PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES Beyond the Nuclear Family: The Increasing Importance of Multigenerational Bonds, Vern L. Bengtson The Accordion Family, Katherine S. Newman Part Five Conflict, Disruption, and Reconstitution 11. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Control and Violence in Intimate Relationships, Michael P. Johnson Controversies Surrounding Mandatory Arrest Policies and the Police Response to Intimate Partner Violence, Amy Leisenring 12. DIVORCE Life without Father: What Happens to the Children?, Sara McLanahan Children's Adjustment Following Divorce: Risk and Resilience Perspectives, Joan B. Kelly and Robert E. Emery 13. STEPFAMILIES The Modern American Stepfamily: Problems and Possibilities, Mary Ann Mason Five Styles of Positive Stepmothering from the Perspective of Young Adult Stepdaughters, Helen M. Crohn Part Six Family and Society 14. THE FAMILY, THE STATE, AND SOCIAL POLICY Improving the Safety Net for Single Mothers Who Face Serious Barriers to Work, Rebecca M. Blank Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Parenting and America's Children, William Meezan and Jonathan Rauch

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