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Title: The Family in Trouble: Since When? For Whom?
Citation Type: Book, Section
Publication Year: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-205-57877-1
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Abstract: Thinking about the family and the religions of the book brings to mind the stories of family trouble that fill the Bible. For example, Adam and Eve become homeless because they irritate the Landlord, and then one of their sons kills the other. Lot, in a drunken stupor, impregnates his daughters. Sarah is infertile into old age and in her jealousy gets Abraham to banish his concubine and his son to the desert. The twin sons of Isaac quarrel, and their mother connives with one to usurp the position of the other. And so on, from Genesis to King David and beyond. Families in trouble—indeed, dysfunctional families—are hardly new. Although in this chapter we do not deal with millennia, we do seek to put family troubles into a historical context. In the effort to answer the questions of why American households are changing and what difference it makes, we see our responsibility as addressing a prior and fundamental question: How are American forms and norms . . .
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Authors: Fischer, Claude, S; Hout, Michael
Editors: Skolnick, Arlene, S; Skolnick, Jerome, H
Pages: 40-56
Volume Title: Family in Transition
Publisher: Pearson Higher Education
Publisher Location: Boston, MA
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Edition: 15
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Family and Marriage, Other, Work, Family, and Time
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