Children at the Millennium: Where Have We Come From? Where Are We Going? (Volume 6) (Advances in Life Course Research, Volume 6)

Produced under the auspices of the Section on the Sociology of Children and Youth of the American Sociological Association, this volume provides a cohesive, wide-ranging source of information on the life courses of children and youths. Contributions demographic analyses and projections; dualitative aspects of children's lives; children and youth in historical and cross-cultural perspective; issues of development in social context; children and public policy; and social and psychological dynamics of childhood and adolescence. Machine generated contents note: LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1. CHILDREN AT THE MILLENNIUM: A REPORT FROM THE SOCIAL SCIENCES Timothy J. Owens and Sandra L. Hofferth SECTION I: HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD 2. CHILDREN IN YOUNG AND AGING SOCIETIES: THE ORDER OF GENERATIONS AND MODELS OF CHILDHOOD IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Juergen Zinnecker 3. FROM THE CHICAGO SCHOOL TO THE NEW SOCIOLOGY OF CHILDREN: THE SOCIOLOGY OF CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD IN THE UNITED STATES, 1900-1999 Heather Beth Johnson SECTION II: FROM VALUES AND BELIEFS TO POSITIVE BEHAVIOR 4. PARENTAL VALUES, BELIEFS, AND BEHAVIOR: A REVIEW AND PROMULGA FOR RESEARCH INTO THE NEW CENTURY Duane F Alwin 5. PREVENTING PROBLEMS VS. PROMOTING THE POSITIVE: WHAT DO WE WANT FOR OUR CHILDREN? Kristin A. Moore and Tamara G. Halle SECTION IH: CHILDREN'S CHANGING EXPERIENCES 6. MEN'S FLIGHT FROM CHILDREN IN THE U.S.: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Dennis P. Hogan and Frances Goldscheider 7. CHANGES IN AMERICAN CHILDREN'S TIME, 1981-1997 Sandra L. Hofferth and John E Sandberg SECTION IV: THE CONTEXTS OF CHILDREN'S LIVES 8. ADOLESCENTS' ANTICIPATIONS OF WORK-FAMILY CONFLICT IN A CHANGING SOCIETAL CONTEXT Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, Sabrina Oesterle and Jeylan T. Mortimer 9. CHANGING NEIGHBORHOODS AND CHILD WELL-BEING: UNDERSTANDING HOW CHILDREN MAY BE AFFECTED IN THE COMING CENTURY Tama Leventhal and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn 10. CONFRONTING THE DILEMMAS OF CHILD WELFARE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Penelope L. Maza. A wide-ranging source of information on the life courses of children and youths. Contributions reflect, amongst other things: demographic analyses and projections; dualitative aspects of children's lives; and children and youth in historical and cross-cultural perspective.