From the Back Cover Key Benefit:The second edition of this anthology continues to provide the reader with materials integrating gender, race, class, and ethnicity, into the introductory sociology of the family curriculum. This book will reveal both historical trends and unique variations that widen our understanding of the diversity of the family. Key Topics: Of the thirty-five selections in The Family Experience, fourteen are new, reflecting current concerns including family and community involvements, kinship interaction patterns, teenage pregnancy, homeless families, family violence, generational relationships, and gender roles and economic matters. Many of the articles reflect a social policy orientation to looking at family continuity and change.