Marvin B Sussman - Stepfamilies: History, Research, and Policy

Irene Levin
Marvin B. Sussman
Editors

Stepfamilies: History, Research, and Policy has also been published as Marriage & Family Review, Volume 26, Numbers 1/2 and 3/4 1997.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Stepfamilies: history, research, and policy / Irene Levin, Marvin B. Sussman, editors.

p. cm.(The Marriage & family review series)

Has also been published as Marriage & family review, volume 26, numbers 1/2 and 3/4 1997T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-7890-0337-6 (alk. paper).ISBN 0-7890-0338-4 (alk. paper)

1. Stepfamilies. I. Levin, Irene. II. Sussman, Marvin B. III. Marriage & family review.

IV. Series.

HQ759.92.S7 1997

306.85dc21 97-39585
CIP

Irene Levin, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Oslo College in Oslo, Norway. She is the author of three books, Stepfamilies: Variations and Manifold, To Understand Everyday Life with a Symbolic Interactionistic Perspective, and Relations, all of which were published in Norwegian. She has also written a number of book chapters and articles for national and international publications. Before beginning family research in the early 1980s, she worked as a family therapist for several years. In 1988, she became the first alumna of Bryn Mawr College invited to give the prestigious annual memorial Anita Lichtenstein Lecture. In 1991, she organized the XXVI international seminar of the Committee on Family Research in Norway on the theme of What Is Family? A book review editor for many years, Dr. Levin is a member of several professional national and international organizations and a board member of several professional journals.

Marvin B. Sussman, PhD, is UNIDEL Professor of Human Behavior Emeritus at the College of Human Resources at the University of Delaware. He is also a member of the CORE Faculty of the Union Graduate School of Union Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio. A member of many professional organizations, he received the 1980 Ernest W. Burgess Award of the National Council on Family Relations. In 1983, Dr. Sussman was elected to the prestigious Academy of Groves for scholarly contributions to the field, and, in 1984, he was awarded a lifelong membership for services to the Groves Conference on Marriage and the Family. A recipient of the Distinguished Family Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), he was honored with the Lee Founders Award, the SSSPs highest professional award, in 1992. The author or editor of 30 books and more than 220 articles on family, community, rehabilitation, health and aging, and organizational transformation, Dr. Sussmans contributions to research and education in the family and aging fields were recognized in 1992 with the State of Delaware Gerontological Society Award.

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