Front cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Boxes, Tables, and Figures -- Preface -- Part I: Understanding Continuity, Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change in Families -- Chapter 1: Family Matters: An Introduction to the Sociology of Canadian Families -- Chapter 2: Family Theory and Methods: Windows on Families and Family Research -- Chapter 3: Canadian Families in Historical, Cross-Cultural, and Global Context -- Chapter 4: First Families: Indigenous Peoples and Family Life in Pre- and Post-Confederate Canada -- Chapter 5: Immigration and the Changing Ethnic Mosaic of Canadian Families -- Chapter 6: More than a Labour of Love: Gender, Unpaid Work, and the Cult of Domesticity -- Part II: The Ties that Bind: Family Formation and Generational Connections -- Chapter 7: Close Relations in Youth and Young Adulthood: Establishing Partnerships and Forming Families -- Chapter 8: Families and Children in the Early Years: Childhood, Socialization, and Shifting Ideologies of Parenthood -- Chapter 9: All Our Families: Diversity, Challenge, and Continuity in Non-conforming Coupled Relationships -- Chapter 10: Family Dissolution and the Brady Bunch: Separation, Divorce, and Remarriage -- Chapter 11: Families in the Middle and the Launching of Children: Home-Leaving, Boomerang Kids, and the Empty Nest -- Chapter 12: Aging Families and the Sunset Years: Caregiving and Support across Generations -- Part III: Families on the Fault Line and Social Policy Issues -- Chapter 13: Families, Health, and Well-Being: Choices and Constraints over the Life Course -- Chapter 14: Trying to Make Ends Meet: Family Poverty, Living on the Margins, and Financial Struggle -- Chapter 15: Families in Crisis: Family Violence, Abuse, and Stress.
"Now in its fourth edition, Family Matters offers an enriched discussion on a variety of substantive issues experienced by diverse Canadians across the life course. Adopting a feminist sociological approach throughout, this popular textbook explores family dynamics through a critical life course theoretical lens. This over-arching perspective is used to examine how social, economic, and historical processes related to gender roles, age and generational location, ethnicity and race, geographical location, and social change shape contemporary family life. This fourth edition includes updated statistics and census data. It provides more detailed and nuanced discussions of many areas, including more emphasis on life course theory. Other topics include the history of slavery and Black family life in Canada, Indigenous families, foreign/temporary workers, intersectional and racialized processes influencing family life courses, youth activism, transgendered children, technology and social media influences on family relationships, and the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on aging families."--
