Disturbing Nest - Family Change and Decline in Modern Societies

Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Family Change in History and Theory -- Chapter 1. What Is Family Decline? -- Chapter 2. Family Decline: The Career of an Idea -- Chapter 3. The Global Family Trend -- Chapter 4. The Rise and Fall in the West of the Modern -- Nuclear Family -- Part II. The Case of Sweden -- Chapter 5. Historical Development of the Family in Sweden -- Chapter 6. The Family as a Public Issue: The Development of -- Swedish Family Policy, 1930-1950 -- Chapter 7. Cultural Transformation: Family and Society in Sweden After the Mid-Twentieth Century -- Chapter 8. Beyond the Nuclear Family: The Changing Family in Sweden Today -- Chapter 9. The Swedish Family in Institutional Decline -- Chapter 10. Swedish Family Decline: A Search for Explanations -- Part III. The Family in Other Advanced Societies -- Chapter 11. Outposts of the Traditional Family: Switzerland and New Zealand -- Chapter 12. Family and Society in the United States -- Part IV. Conclusions -- Chapter 13. A Postnuclear Family Trend -- Chapter 14. The Social Implications of Modern Family Decline -- Bibliography -- Index.