Table of Contents

Introduction: Gender, family and social change: from modernity to the Millennial generation; Family, family change, modernity; Family, family change, contemporary modernities; The book; Section One: Gender change and challenges to intimacy and sexual relations Asexual women and men: living without sex; Asexuality: a complex concept; Research on asexuality; Asexuality, couples, children; The asexual movement; Childfree women and men: living without children; The term ‘childfree’; Research on childfree women and men; Reasons to be childfree; The childfree movement; Couples together yet apart:‘I love you but do not want to live with you’; The term ‘living apart together’; Research on living apart together couples; Reasons for living apart; Invisible living apart together people?; Section Two: Gender change and challenges to traditional forms of parenthood Stay-at-home husbands and fathers; Stay-at-home men; Research on stay-at-home husbands and fathers; Male carers, couples and children; The househusbands’/stay-at-home fathers’ movement; Lone mothers and lone fathers; Lone mothers and lone fathers through history; Research on lone parenting; Lone parenting and children; The lone parenthood movement: from marginalisation to empowerment Homosexual and trans parents; Homosexual and transgender parenting; Research on homosexual parenting; Research on transgender parenting; The homosexual and trans parents rights movement; Conclusions: what can we learn?; Glossary of key concepts; Index