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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: Family Decline -- 1. Family Decline in America -- 2. American Family Decline, 1960-1990: A Review and Appraisal -- Part 2: Marriage and the Family Today -- 3. The Family Condition of America: Cultural Change and Public Policy -- 4. Family Values: A Communitarian Position -- 5. The Evolution of Marriage and the Problem of Stepfamilies: A Biosocial Perspective -- 6. A World Without Fathers -- Part 3: Rebuilding the Nest -- 7. Fostering the New Familism: A Goal for America -- 8. The Roots of Declining Social Virtue: Family, Community, and the Need for a "Natural Communities Policy" -- 9. Modern Marriage: Revising the Cultural Script -- 10. Challenging the Culture of Fatherlessness -- 11. The Marriage Movement -- 12. Can the Nuclear Family be Revived? -- 13. A Marriage Research Agenda for the Twenty-First Century: Ten Critical Questions -- Part 4: Looking Back -- 14. Remembering My Father: An Intellectual Portrait of "The Man Who Saved Marriages" -- 15. The War Over the Family: America's Debate Over the Decline of the Two-Parent Family -- Index

A comparative ethnography of the lives of inhabitants of similar housing environments in two Swedish communities‐Stockholm (population 1.3 million) and Gävle (population 50,000)‐provides an opportunity to examine the ways in which lifestyles and community life may vary by size of urban place. The overwhelming impression is of lifestyle and community life similarities between the two locales, suggesting that size of urban place is not very significant in its effects. Yet some social advantages are felt by residents of the smaller community, such as increased family contacts and fewer youth problems. These advantages are offset, however, by the more limited job market and range of cultural facilities associated with smaller places.

The main causes, conditions, and social consequences of residential differentiation in urbanized communities are reviewed. A comparison is made among the forms of residential differentiation in preindustrial, industrial, and postindustrial cities and in planned and unplanned industrial cites. Major emphasis is given to the social problems and issues connected with postindustrial residential differentiation.

Graduate education in urban studies can make significant contributions toward strengthening urban research and extension. A new relationship between the academic person and the urban service professional is needed, as well as more interdisciplinary involvement of the research research worker and substantive changes in urban professional education.