Inhalt:
Friso Ross and Stephanie Treichel
Family Structures in Change: A Prologue to Transitional Phenomena
Part I: Overviews and National Views on Transition
Erdmute Alber and Jeannett Martin
Multiplicities of Kinship and Family in Africa
Manfred Liebel
African Childhoods and the Pitfalls of Postcolonial Education and Childhood Politics
Ndangwa Noyoo
The Evolution of the Family in Southern Africa
Sophia Thabane, Pumela Mamahao Mahao, Tšepang Florence Manyeli, Simbai Mushonga, Katiso Sehlabane, and X. Rosario Arun Kumar
Families in Transition: Contributing Factors and Emerging Family Patterns in Lesotho
Ronald Lutz
Family in the European Modernity
Janina N. Hamburger
La política familiar en España
Paulo Delgado
Families and Foster Families in Portugal. A Setting for the Development of Children at Risk
Nataša Kora¸ija
Challenges in Croatian Families at the Beginning of 21st Century from a Perspective of Social Workers
Part II: Gender, Women, and Sexuality
Janestic Mwende Twikirize
Rural Livelihoods, Women’s Participation and Gender Equality in Uganda
Francine Masson
Women Empowerment in a Patriarchal Society: Implications for Family Relationships in South Africa
Maria Mauersberger
Das Dilemma der Mutter hinter Gittern: Kriminelle und schlechte Mutter, eine doppelte Schuld
Anna Damm
Heterosexuelle, weiße, zweigeschlechtliche und paarnormative Familienkonstrukte und deren De_konstruierungsansätze
Maria E. Matthäus
Myanmar: Media Empowerment – Qualitative Studies on the Impact of Mobile and Digital Applications in the Field of Women’s Media Skills: An Examination of Burmese Women in the Educational Sector
Part III: Social Challenges and the Role of Social Work
Linda Harms Smith
Onslaughts on the Family: Neo-Liberalism, Post-Colonialism and Political Conflict
Olenka Bordo Benavides
Migrantische Sorgearbeit, globale Betreuungsketten und transnationale Familie - Eine kritische Annäherung
Gwen Lesetedi and Odireleng Jankey
The Family In Era of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Botswana: Advocating for the Integration of Inidgenous Knowledge in Intervenetion Strategies
Flavia Röhrs
How to Empower the Powerless? -The Influence of Local and Transnational Advocacy Networks. A Case Study of India
Miki Motola and Tal Feder
Marriage Patterns and Social Distance Between Social Groups in Israel
Alma Tasevska
The Issue of Parental Competences in the Context of Early Childhood Development in the Republic of Macedonia