Handbook of World Families

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Handbook of World Families is written by Bert N. Adams and published by SAGE. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0761927638 (ISBN 10) and 9780761927631 (ISBN 13).

The Handbook of World Families clarifies and promotes a cross-cultural perspective on the family by an examination of 25 countries worldwide, with the same topics covered in parallel fashion for each. These topics include a brief demographic and historic description of the country, mate selection, child rearing practices, gender roles, family stresses and violence, divorce and remarriage, kinship, aging and death, and the family within the broader societal institutions including politics, economics, and religion.