Alternatives to Traditional Family Living

Alternatives to Traditional Family Living is an open-minded and honest assessment of "new" family forms that deviate from the traditional nuclear family. Sociologists explore the recent changes in economic climate, social conditions, and values that necessitate and/or support these alternative family forms. They review the issues and problems associated with family forms that have increased in the last decade--single parents, the voluntarily childless, and commuter families. Other chapters on the kibbutz and foster families are enlightening and provocative. Throughout this insightful volume runs an affirmation of the viability of family in its many alternative variations.