"Headlines from news sources are combined with the latest and best social science research to offer scholars, practitioners, and parents a much-needed source for understanding contemporary American parenthood"-- Provided by publisher.

Helicopter parents : a new moral panic? -- World's okay-est mom : the adaptive management parent -- The changing landscape of parent-adult child relations -- Parenthood in the age of apps and mommy blogs : technology and digital culture in parent-child relations -- Parenthood and mental health in the U.S. : why don't children improve adults' emotional well-being -- Parental leave programs : what do we know about designing good policies? -- The promise and limits of work-family supports in a shifting policy landscape : a double bind for working mothers in western Germany -- Parenthood and leisure time disparities -- Understanding inequality : children, consumer culture and the empathy framework -- Do we talk about race/ethnicity with our children or not? Variations in parental ethnic-racial socialization strategies -- What do visas have to do with parenting? Middle-class dependent visa holders and transcultural parenting -- Lost in detention and deportation, found through foster care and adoption : reviewing the tensions between family building and human rights in the United States -- Child well being in same-gender parent families : courts, media, and social science research -- Reproducing family : how parents accept their LGB children's good families.