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Who counts as family has far-reaching implications for policy, including health insurance coverage, end-of-life decisions, estate rights, and child custody. But how do Americans really define family? The first study to explore this largely overlooked question, Counted Out examines currents in public opinion to assess their policy implications

Who counts as family has far-reaching implications for policy, including health insurance coverage, end-of-life decisions, estate rights, and child custody. But how do Americans really define family? The first study to explore this largely overlooked question, Counted Out examines currents in public opinion to assess their policy implications and predict how Americans’ definitions of family may change in the future.Counted Out broadens the scope of previous studies by moving beyond efforts to understand how Americans view their own families to examine the way Americans characterize the concept of family in general. Less than 30 percent of Americans view heterosexual cohabitating couples without children as family, while similar couples with children count as family for nearly 80 percent. Public opinion matters. The presence of children in any living arrangement meets with a notable degree of public approval. The act’s passage further agitated an already roiling national debate about whether American notions of family could or should expand to include, for example, same-sex marriage, unmarried cohabitation, and gay adoption. When state voters passed the California Marriage Protection Act (Proposition 8) in 2008, it restricted the definition of marriage to a legal union between a man and a woman. Counted Out shows that for most Americans, however, the boundaries

BRIAN POWELL is Rudy Professor of Sociology at Indiana University.

CATHERINE BOLZENDAHL is assistant professor of sociology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.

CLAUDIA GEIST is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Utah.

LALA CARR STEELMAN is professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of South Carolina.

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About the AuthorBRIAN POWELL is Rudy Professor of Sociology at Indiana University.CATHERINE BOLZENDAHL is assistant professor of sociology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.CLAUDIA GEIST is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Utah.LALA CARR STEELMAN is professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of South Carolina.

• Title : Counted Out: Same-Sex Relations and Americans' Definitions of Family (American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology)
• Author : Brian Powell
• Rating : 4.58 (302 Vote)
• Publish : 2016-8-1
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 340 Pages
• Asin : 0871546884
• Language : English