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■The Family Tree
Families as Kinship Systems
Culture and Forms of the Family
The Family Unit
The Development of the Family
The Origins of the Nuclear
Family
■Family and Ethnicity
The European American Family
The Native American Family
The African American Family
The Asian American Family
The Hispanic Family
■Forming Families
Courtship and Dating
Marriage
Biracial Marriage
Same-Sex Marriage
■Parenting
Gender and Parenting
Single-Parent Families
Grandparenting
Adoptive Parents
Not Parenting
■Family Transitions
The Consequences of Divorce
Blended Families
■Violence in Families
Intimate Partner Violence
Intergenerational and
Intragenerational Violence
■The Family in the 21st
Century: “The Same as It
Ever Was”