Family Problems: Stress, Risk, and Resilience presents an interdisciplinary collection of original essays that push the boundaries of family science to reflect the increasingly diverse complexity of family concerns in the modern world.

Features

• Represents the most up-to-date family problem research while addressing such contemporary issues as parental incarceration, same sex marriage, health care disparities, and welfare reform
• Features brief chapter introductions that provide context and direction to guide the student to the heart of what’s important in the piece that follows
• Includes critical thinking questions to enhance the utility of the book for classroom use
• Responds to family problem issues through the lens of a social justice perspective