"Building upon the success of two previous editions, the third edition of Family Theories: starts with an opening chapter restructured to offer a better guide for using theory to guide research and practice; introduces an eighth theoretical framework - functionalist theory; allow readers to see how postmodernism and feminism relate to the studies of families; and restores several metatheories, dealing with the type of causation, treatment of time, and level of analysis, that were deleted from the last chapter in the previous edition."--Jacket.