Topics: the changing family, the collective majority, Marriage and other partnerships, families in crisis, planning parenthood, and nontraditional families.

Part I.The Changing Family -- The Adoption Maze / Kim Clark and Nancy Shute -- The Reappearing Nuclear Family / David Blankenhorn -- Step by Step / Roberta Israeloff -- Children of Two Faiths / April Austin -- AARP Survey : Boomer Population Redefines ''Sandwich Generation'' -- Make Room for Granddaddy / Pamela Paul -- Part II. The Collective Majority -- Kindred : A Portrait of Our Families Today / Valerie Wilson Wesley -- Time to Take a Closer Look at Hispanic Children and Families / Kristin Anderson Moore -- Culture Clash : Asian-American Families Struggle to Reconcile Expectations of East and West / Maria T. Padilla -- Part III. Marriage and Other Partnerships -- The State of Our Unions / David Popenoe and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead -- Should You Stay Together for the Kids? / Walter Kirn -- Breaking Up Is Hard to Do / Mubarak Dahir -- Part IV. Families in Crisis -- More Americans Put Families Ahead of Work / Stephanie Armour -- Mission Impossible / Jane Yager -- Stifled Screams / Armstrong Williams -- Who's in Charge Here? / Nancy Gibbs -- Part V. Planning Parenthood -- The Perils of Early Motherhood / Isabel V. Sawhill -- Human in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction / Karen Wright -- The Ethics of Human Cloning : James Q. Wilson vs. Leon Kass / James Q. Wilson and Leon Kass -- Childfree in Toyland / Christopher Clausen -- Part VI. Nontraditional Families -- The Battle to Be a Parent / Richard Tate -- Confessions of a Black Mr. Mom / Ta-Nehisi Coates -- Love Without Borders / Lynette Clemetson -- The End of the Family? / Terry Gloway.