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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- 1 Helping Families -- Introduction -- Family supportive practice -- Whole family approach -- Prevention and early intervention -- Social policy and family support -- Family support and law -- 2 Understanding Families -- Introduction -- Families -- Family ecology -- Social positioning -- Family assets -- Family relationships and dynamics -- The dynamics of time -- 3 Families under Strain -- Introduction -- Family assets and stressors model -- Family challenges -- 4 Being Supportive -- Introduction -- Developing supportive relationships -- Working with diverse family members -- Communication and family narratives -- 5 Supportive Interventions -- Introduction -- Ecological framework -- Family group -- Specific models -- Other services -- 6 Working Collaboratively -- Introduction -- Working together -- Shared theoretical frameworks -- Interprofessional communication -- Facilitating and hindering factors -- Working as a team -- 7 Remaining Vigilant -- Introduction -- Errors in reasoning and thinking -- Attitude and stance -- Emotions and feelings -- 8 Supportive Supervision -- Introduction -- Organisational context -- Peer supervision -- The supervision session -- The supervisory relationship -- Relationship dynamics -- Reflective supervision -- Outcomes of supervision -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

Despite considerable reform over the past several decades, family law is still failing families. Instead of strengthening relationships long before problems arise, too often family law waits for a crisis and then intervenes, typically in a heavy‐handed, adversarial fashion. This essay, an extended précis of a forthcoming book, argues that family law should be fundamentally oriented toward fostering strong, stable, positive relationships to prevent crises. Then, if a conflict does arise, family law should intervene in a manner that preserves and repairs relationships.Key Points for the Family Court Community:
Despite considerable evidence demonstrating the essential role families play in ensuring the well‐being of the next generation, family law does far too little to strengthen families.
Once conflicts do arise, family law pits one family member against the other, undermining the relationships that will almost certainly continue long after the legal action ends.
Family law should be fundamentally oriented toward fostering strong, stable, positive relationships, which will require changes to both the structural relationship between families and the state and the dispute‐resolution system.

A review of Joshua Gamson's Modern Families.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- List of Credits -- PART ONE CONCEPTS AND METHODS -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Describing Variation: The Family Developmental Cycle -- 3 Explaining Family Variation -- PART TWO THE B-CLUSTER: NOMADIC FORAGING BANDS -- Prelude: Children in an Mbuti Camp -- 4 Band Societies: The Family and the Larger Community -- 5 The Developmental Cycle of the Family in Band Societies -- PART THREE THE A-CLUSTER: FAMILY SYSTEMS OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA -- Prelude: Sebei Elders Discuss Cattle Claims -- 6 The Logic of African Social Organization -- 7 Family Activities in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 8 Conceptualizing the Structure of African Families -- 9 African Developmental Cycles: Part One -- 10 African Developmental Cycles: Part Two -- PART FOUR THE O-CLUSTER: ISLANDS OF MICRONESIA AND POLYNESIA -- Prelude: An Argument Over Teen Sexuality -- 11 The Nature of Oceanic Societies -- 12 Making a Living and Making a Name on an Island -- 13 Oceanic Family Structure -- PART FIVE THE N-CLUSTER: SOCIETIES OF THE NORTHWEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA -- Prelude: Growing Up in a Kwakiutl House -- 14 The Logic of Social Organization on the Northwest Coast -- 15 Family Activities in Northwest Coast Societies -- 16 Family Structure on the Northwest Coast -- PART SIX THE C-CLUSTER: PREMODERN, COMPLEX SOCIETIES -- Prelude: Dowry Negotiations in Lahore -- 17 Introduction to the Family in C-Cluster Societies -- 18 A Tour of C-Cluster Family Systems: Part One -- 19 A Tour of C-Cluster Family Systems: Part Two -- 20 Explaining Variation in C-Cluster Systems -- PART SEVEN THE M-CLUSTER: FAMILIES IN MODERN SOCIETY -- Prelude: The Debate About the Family -- 21 Modernity and the Embattled Family -- 22 What Families Do and Don't Do Anymore -- 23 Modern Family Process

This book explores contemporary families as sites of consumption, examining the changing contexts of family life, where new forms of family are altering how family life is practised and produced, and addressing key social issues - childhood obesity, alchohol and drug addiction, social networking, viral marketing - that put pressure on families as the social, economic and regulatory environments of consumption change