"Decade in Review" Journal of Marriage and Family

We have had inquiries here at NCFR headquarters about using this issue of the journal for a classroom text or purchasing it for your personal library.

Yes, it's available!  And it's affordable (individual copies are $29.50; discounts for multiple copies--see details below). Contact Wiley-Blackwell, the journal publisher, to order copies: 800-835-6770

Check out this table of contents:

•    Demographic Trends in the United States: A Review of Research in the 2000s by Andrew Cherlin
•    Filling the Glass: Gender Perspectives on Families by Myra Marx Ferree
•    Critical Race Theories, Colorism, and the Decade's Research on Families of Color by Linda M. Burton, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Victor Ray, Rose Buckelew, and Elizabeth Hordge Freeman
•    Poverty and the American Family: A Decade in Review by Kathryn Edin and Rebecca Joyce Kissane
•    Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families by Timothy J. Biblarz and Evren Savci
•    Connecting Complex Processes: A Decade of Research on Immigrant Families by Jennifer E. Glick
•    "Families" in International Context: Comparing Institutional Effects across Western Societies by Lynn Prince Cooke and Janeen Baxter
•    Family Risk and Resilience in the Context of War and Terrorism by Shelley M. MacDermid Wadsworth
•    Partnering Across the Life Course: Sex, Relationships, and Mate Selection by Sharon Sassler
•    Diversity in Pathways to Parenthood: Patterns, Implications, and Emerging Research Directions by Pamela J. Smock and Fiona Rose Greenland
•    Families with Children and Adolescents: A Review, Critique, and Future Agenda by Robert Crosnoe and Shannon E. Cavanagh
•    Parenthood, Childlessness, and Well-being: A Life Course Perspective by Debra Umberson, Tetyana Pudrovska, and Corinne Reczek
•    Marriage in the New Millennium: A Decade in Review by Frank D. Fincham and Steven H. Beach
•    Research on Divorce: Continuing Trends and New Developments by Paul R. Amato
•    Remarriage and Stepfamilies: Strategic Sites for Family Scholarship in the 21st Century by Megan M. Sweeney
•    Socioeconomic Status, Family Processes, and Individual Development by Rand D. Conger, Katherine J. Conger, and Monica J. Martin
•    Work and Family Research in the First Decade of the 21st Century by Suzanne M. Bianchi and Melissa A. Milkie
•    Conflict, Power, and Violence in Families by Kristin L. Anderson
•    Advances in Families and Health Research in the 21st Century by Deborah Carr and Kristen W. Springer
•    Biosocial Influences on the Family: A Decade Review by Brian M. D'Onofrio and Benjamin B. Lahey
•    Family Policy: Becoming a Field of Inquiry and Subfield of Social Policy by Karen Bogenschneider and Thomas Corbett

This special Journal of Marriage and Family June 2010 edition can be ordered from the Wiley-Blackwell customer service department at 800-835-6770 by any individual for $29.50 per copy or by discounted quantity. Requests will need to specify that this is for Volume 72, Issue 3, of the journal.

Bookstores can order in bulk at a 20% discount. Issues will then be shipped to the bookstore's address.

If the professor orders for a class, the price is also discounted, and copies will be delivered to the professor at their institution (not individual addresses). Orders will be taken by credit card only.  Order early since delivery is approximately one month after order date.  Please note that no returns on journal orders are accepted. Due to contractual agreement with our publisher, these journals are not available through NCFR. They must be ordered via our publisher, Wiley-Blackwell.