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Is the family in crisis? Or do crises crystallize in families' lived realities? Families as constitutive units of all social architectures are central to our democracies. In this book, scholars from cultural, gender, and media studies, lawyers, sociologists, and historians discuss how today's rainbow variety of families crosses borders and how cultural texts - films, TV-series, novels, short stories and magazines, from Europe (Germany, Italy, Spain) and the US - (de-)construct, take part in, and mirror family discourses around topics such as father(hood)s, mother(hood)s and parentage, reproductive decisions and adoption, marriage and divorce, poverty and welfare, and the rhetoric of the nuclear family.

Family; Popular Culture; Reproduction; Parenthood; US; Europe; Migration; Law; Cultural Studies; Gender Studies; American Studies; Sociology of Family --- American Studies. --- Cultural Studies. --- Europe. --- Gender Studies. --- Law. --- Migration. --- Parenthood. --- Popular Culture. --- Reproduction. --- Sociology of Family. --- US. --- Families --- Families in mass media --- Families in literature