Part I. Foundations of Comparative Family Studies
1. Global Families - Suzanna Smith
2. Comparative Family Research Methodology - Gary Lee, Nancy Greenwood
3. The History of the Euro-Western Family - Bron Ingoldsby
Part 1 Exercise: Comparative Family Research Study
Part II. Family Structure
4. Family Origin and Universality - Bron Ingoldsby
5. Patterns of Kinship and Residence - Max Stanton
6. Marital Structure - Bron Ingoldsby
7. Religious Utopias and Family Structure - Bron Ingoldsby
Part 2 Exercise: The Ethnic Genogram
Part III. Family Development
8. Mate Selection and Marriage - Bron Ingoldsby
9. Parenting Practices Worldwide - Judith Myers-Walls, Karen Myers-Bowman, German Posada
10. International Divorce - Patrick McKenry, Sharon Price
11. Diversity in International Aging Families - Richard Miller, William Meredith
Part 3 Exercise: Mate Selection
Part IV. International Family Variation
12. Asian and Latino Immigrant Families - Walter Kawamoto, Rueben Anguiano
13. Families in the Islamic Middle East - Bahira Sherif-Trask
14. Families in sub-Saharan Africa - Stephan Wilson, Lucy Ngige
15. Families in Latin America - Bron Ingoldsby
16. Families in Japan - Colleen Murray, Naoko Kimura
Part 4 Exercise: The Story of Jose and Lana
Part V. Social Inequality in the Contemporary World
17. Native American Families - Tamara Cheshire
18. Women in the Two-Thirds World - Sandra Russo, Suzanna Smith
19. Household Division of Labor in Industrial Societies - Linda Haas
20. Poverty and Family Policy in a Global Context - Mark Rank, Gautam Yadama
Part 5 Exercise: The Arias Family