New material addresses current topics and issues such as the emergence of "early adulthood" as a new life stage between adolescence and full adulthood, in Chapter 2; the diverging demographics of family life, with improvement for the best-educated and deterioration for the least-educated, in Chapters 4 and 12; the changing meaning of marriage, as its practical value declines but its symbolic value increases, in Chapter 7; and marriage as a political issue: should it be promoted among low-income families, and should it be extended to same-sex couples, in Chapter 14.
New photo essays dramatize Hurricane Katrina (Chapter 4), grandparents caring for grandchildren (10), and same-sex marriage (14).
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