Index
Accomplishment displays, 84–85, 88, 241
Achievement: emphasis on, 5, 112, 116, 130–33, 137–40, 142–44, 147, 152. See also education; extracurricular activities
Affect, 60, 167–72, 174–76, 180–82; measuring in familial relationships, 44, 177–79, 263. See also negative emotion spillover
Affection displays to family members, 19, 24, 115, 151–52, 155–57, 172, 247
Affiliation displays, 84, 89, 241. See also identity and material displays
Allowance, 114
American Dream, 3, 5, 8, 9, 232, 256
Apprenticeship and enskillment, 115, 125, 151, 157, 163–67, 165, 172, 247
Aronsson, Karin, xii, 113, 126
Arriving home, 13–19
Backyards, 69, 75, 90, 200, 257; investment in, 90; use of, 91, 93n22
Busyness, 5–6, 27–28, 41, 49, 89–91, 151
Care, 5, 101, 119, 151, 164, 199, 202–5, 233, 235, 244; morality of, 199, 205, 212; responsibility for, 9–10, 119. See also clock time/care time; love; sibling care
CELF houses, 40, 44, 72, 76–79, 241, 257
Cherlin, Andrew, 95
Child as a project/child as a being, 139–40
Childcare, 19, 33, 35–38, 45, 94, 97, 248. See also division of labor; gender roles; housework
Childhood as a period of preparation, 139
Childrearing. See parenting
Children's dependency, 119, 127, 243
Children's futures, 5, 111, 116, 138–40, 148
Children's work, 111, 115–16, 140, 151. See also homework; extra-curricular activities
Chores, 74, 96, 109–10, 111–12, 126–28, 247. See also division of labor; housework
Chua, Amy, 112
Clark, Clifford, 85
Class. See middle class; middle class anxiety
Clock time/care time, 217
Clutter, 70–71, 78, 248; crisis, 69, 73, 75, 79–81; and long-term well-being, 73
Collaboration, 94–95, 102–3, 108–9, 127, 153, 243
Communication, 13, 32–33, 35–36, 39–40, 64; between couples, 106, 108; parent-child, 18
Commute, 15, 27, 44; extreme commuter, 31; -ing, time spent, 30–31, 42
Competition, 131, 141, 145, 154
Concerted cultivation, 116, 125, 140, 152
Conflict, 48–49, 175, 180, 242; in couples, 95, 100, 102–3, 106, 109; parent-child, 49–50, 59–60, 117–18, 121, 136–37, 247. See also dinner, intergenerational conflict and
Consumerism, 3, 52, 71, 73, 84–85, 248
Cooperation, 156–72, 244. See also collaboration
Cortisol, 73, 79, 182–85, 189–90; saliva sampling of, 260
Crawford, Robert, 196
Creativity, 48, 85–86, 125, 159–62, 239
Cross-cultural comparative studies: on children's participation in housework, 9–10, 119, 122, 124, 127; on coordinating housework, 108; on eating, 50, 60, 66n22; on extracurricular activities, 145; on family time, 108, 228–29, 231; on identity displays in the home, 85; on sibling care, 163–65; on work-family conflict, 15, 222–24. See also iCELF; sCELF
Culture and family, 2, 9, 230, 238–39
Digital photograph archive, xi, 69, 71, 258, 262, 265
Dinner, 48–50; cooking from scratch 56, 59, 65, 249; eating together or apart, 50, 54–55, 57–59, 63–65, 219–21, 241, 249; intergenerational conflict and, 49–50, 59–63, 65, 233–34; preparation time, 56–57. See also eating; food
Directives, 113, 116–17, 121, 125, 127, 162–63, 165, 248
Distraction behavior, 14, 18, 20–25, 121, 125, 176
Diurnal slope, 182–84, 189–90; see also cortisol
Division of labor, 94–96, 100–102, 107–9, 115, 184, 190, 200, 243–44. See also gender roles
Drinking alcohol, 143, 194, 196, 204–6, 211, 213–14
Dual-earner families, xi, 1, 10–12, 15, 27–28, 35, 42, 46, 95, 217, 222, 237. See also work; work-family tension
Eagleton, Terry, 237
Eating: cross-cultural perspectives on, 60–61, 64. See also dinner; food
Ecocultural perspective, 147
Education, 111–12, 116, 128, 132–35, 137–40, 143, 147, 152. See also achievement; children's work; homework; school
Ehrenreich, Barbara, 137
Emotion. See affect
Employment. See work
Ethnoarchaeological data, 45, 69. See also digital photograph archive; material culture; possessions
Extra-curricular activities, 42, 141–46; parental involvement in, 4, 146–48
Family cohesion, 28, 42–46; photographic display of, 87. See also togetherness
Family coordination, 96, 108, 243, 250–51
Family health portrait, 194, 199. See also health as a family matter
Family life possibilities, 246–49
Family photographs, 79, 85–88, 241
Family time, 218, 222, 224–29. See also quality family time
Fathers. See gender differences; gender roles; housework Financial stability: as determinant of well-being, 203, 206–7, 212, 214–5
Food: pre-prepared/convenience, 49–59, 61–65, 248–9; raw ingredients, 52, 56–51, 59, 65; shopping for, 50; stockpiling, 9, 50–52, 69, 76, 263
Gender differences: in awareness of housework or clutter, 73, 81, 91; in perception of work-family conflict, 221–22; in self-evaluation, 97–99, 222. See also work-family tension
Gender roles, 28, 85–86; change in, 11, 45; persistence of, 21, 35–37, 45, 73, 75, 90, 94–98, 115, 221–22, 242–43; women's frustration with, 100–102, 243. See also division of labor
Goffman, Erving, 4, 17, 167, 253
Gottman, John, 100
Good enough family, 232–33, 250
Greeting family members, 13, 17–18, 25, 247
Guilt, 135, 221, 223–24, 227, 235, 238, 249. See also moral judgment, work-family tension
Halldén, Gunilla, 139
Health, 59–61, 65, 73, 182–83, 190, 192–99, 242–43, 262–63; as a family matter, 192–95, 199, 203, 213–15, 242. See also family health portrait
Heirlooms, 87
Hollan, Douglas, 193
Home, 8, 69, 85–86; compartmentalization of, 44–45, 241; home offices, 75–78, 83–85, 89; home spaces, 28–29, 32, 74, 84, 241, 261. See also CELF houses; kitchens
Home tours: video, 69, 73, 75, 80, 98, 208
Homework, 40, 115–16, 130–31, 140; parental assistance with, 10, 132–34, 138, 172; tension associated with, 135–37, 235–38
Household economics, 162
Household maintenance, 32–33, 35, 96–97
Housework, 94–96; children 111–13, 115, 126–28, 234, 247; couples 100–102, 106, 108–10, 184. See also chores; division of labor
Identity and material displays, 67, 84–89, 241
Ignoring family members, 18, 22–25
Individualism, 86, 195, 239–40, 244
Individual-level health, 192–99, 213, 215. See also health as a family matter
Individual solutions, 95, 221, 230. See also responsibility, individual
Information reports, 19, 21–23
Interactions, 13, 17, 28, 45, 163, 168, 175, 177–79, 202, 229–30; marital, 96, 102, 106, 108–9; parent-child 112–13, 116, 121, 125, 127, 159, 162, 167, 172, 176; siblings, 122, 125, 151, 163
Inter-rater reliability, 177–78, 191n4
Interviews, 4, 53, 194–95, 232, 261–63
Investment in children's futures. See children's futures; middle-class anxiety; parental involvement; parental responsibility
Izquierdo, Carolina, 127, 197–98
Kitchens, 40–41, 45, 50–52, 74, 78–19, 81, 241
Knowledge exploration, 160
Kusserow, Adrie, 116
Lareau, Annette, 116, 125, 140. See also concerted cultivation
Leisure 32–33, 35; fragmented 71, 90; gender and 36, 38–40, 75, 90, 96, 184; indoor or outdoor 71, 75, 90–91; vanishing, 70, 75, 89. See also extra-curricular activities Levey, Hilary, 140–41
Logistic behavior, 19–20
Love, 151–52. See also tough love
Marital satisfaction, 100, 174–75, 181–83
Marriage, 94–96, 100, 106; peer marriage, 95. See also division of labor; marital satisfaction; spousal intimacy; well-being and marriage
Material culture, 41, 69, 71, 87, 91
Mathews, Gordon, 197–98
Mead, Margaret, 10–11
Methods, 1–2, 4, 254, 258–66. See also affect, measuring in familial relationships; cortisol; home spaces; home video tours; interviews; possessions, coding and counting; psychological measures; questionnaires and charts; scan sampling; video recording
Middle class, 3–5, 8–11, 68, 137–38, 196, 253–56; homeownership and, 85, 215; parenting ideologies, 27, 111, 116, 119, 131, 137–40, 147. See also American Dream; middle-class anxiety
Middle-class anxiety, 137–39, 172n8, 232
Mintz, Steven, 139
Monitoring: of children's performance, 27, 124, 126–27, 130–31, 145–46, 233–234; of spouse's performance, 104–5, 234
Morality, 50, 116, 126–28, 167, 170, 195–6, 199, 202, 204–5, 212, 214, 218, 232, 237, 242
Moral judgment, 196, 232–34, 236. See also guilt
Mothers. See gender differences; gender roles; working mothers
Negative behavior, 19–23. See also negative emotion spillover
Negative emotion, 179, 190; spillover, 174, 176, 180–81, 187–90. See also affect
Negotiation, 59, 94, 106, 109–10, 113, 116–18, 126, 162–63, 239
Neuroticism, 180–81, 185, 187, 190
Ochs, Elinor, 127
Parental involvement, 10, 130–34, 137–38, 140, 147–48, 217. See also homework; extra-curricular activities; school
Parental responsibility, 10, 132–33, 137, 140, 147
Parenting, 10, 172; approaches, 42, 45, 111–12, 114, 125–27, 131, 218, 221; ethnotheories, 230. See also good parenting
Participation framework, 167–68, 170
Patterson, Gerald, 126
Personalization of home, 85–86
Planning for college, 133, 138–39, 168
Pontecorvo, Clotilde, xii, 266,
Possessions, 9, 67–71, 91; coding of, 71–72, 76, 83; counts of, 71–73, 76, 83, 262; density of, 70, 73, 76, 83
Psychological measures, 180, 261, 263–65
Quality family time, 224–31; excluding others from, 226–27; planning, 227; and special activities, 225–26
Questionnaires and charts, 175, 179–80, 261, 264
Qvortrup, Jens, 140
Reconnecting after work, 14–16, 24–25, 250
Refrigerators, 9, 49–53, 99–100, 199, 248, 262; as displays, 41, 79, 81–5, 87, 92n14
Relationships, 94–95, 101–2, 190, 229; parent-child, 112–13, 116, 136–37, 236; siblings, 163–67. See also marriage; marital satisfaction
Responsibility, 112–13, 116, 122, 126–27, 170, 202, 250; individual, 192, 195–98, 218, 221, 227, 230; shared, 218, 233. See also guilt; moral judgment
Routines, 42, 109, 112, 118, 127–28, 193, 245
Scan sampling, 28–30, 33–34, 44, 46n7, 69, 74–75, 183–84, 259–60, 265
Schegloff, Emanuel, 13
School: volunteering in, 134–35, 138. See also education
Schwartz, Pepper, 95
Siblings, 164–67; sibling care, 122, 125, 151, 163
Smoking, 49, 194, 196, 199–200, 202–15, 242
Social awareness, 113, 119, 126, 165, 202–3
Socialization, 9–10, 113–16, 119, 120–28, 144, 163–67, 172, 202–4, 247. See also apprenticeship and enskillment
Social withdrawal, 39, 176, 178–80, 184–85, 190
Spatial proximity, 43–44
Spillover. See negative emotion spillover
Sports, 84, 89, 130, 141–46, 152–55
Spousal intimacy, 38, 100–101, 106. See also marital satisfaction
Stress, 39, 73–74, 98, 174–76, 190–91, 196, 207; job stress, 175–76, 178, 180–85. See also cortisol
Supportive interactions, 164–67
Television viewing, 14, 16, 21, 36, 54–55, 71, 74–76, 113, 120–21, 168, 184, 186, 242
Time, 41, 82; time-saving, 56–57, 64, 239; time shortage, 27, 217. See also family time; quality family time
Time alone, 34, 39, 44, 46; gendered patterns of, 36, 40
Time together, 27–28, 31–34, 38–39, 42–46, 48–49, 57–59, 63–65, 220, 224–31, 241, 249. See also family time; quality family time; quality moments; togetherness
Togetherness, 42–46; family, 31–32, 43–44, 45, 226–29, 231; parents, 38–39, 46; parents with children, 33–35, 45. See also family cohesion; time together
Twenty-first century, 3, 10–11, 152, 232–33, 249
Veblen, Thorstein, 87
Video recording, 2, 44, 152, 177, 233, 245, 254, 258–59, 262–64
Well-being, 182, 192–99, 262–63; family, 42, 128, 147, 163, 206–7, 215, 218, 227; individual, 148; marriage and, 100–101, 183, 243
Winnicott, Donald, 232–33
Work, 1, 30, 35, 70, 98, 174–76; hours employed outside the home, 30, 35, 37, 42, 45, 63, 96; schedule 30–31, 63, 135. See also dual-earner families; work-family tension
Work-and-spend cycle, 91–92
Work-family tension, 6, 42, 48–49, 218–223
Working mothers, 135. See also gender differences; gender roles
Working parents. See dual-earner families; work-family tension