Introduction / Peter N. Stearns -- Family and childhood -- The cute child and modern American parenting / Gary Cross -- Abduction stories that changed our lives: from Charley Ross to modern behavior / Paula Fass -- "If they have any orders, I am theirs to command": indulgent middle-class grandparents in American society / Linda W. Rosenzweig -- Emotions and consumer behavior -- There's no place like home: homesickness & homemaking in America / Susan J. Matt -- Horseless horses: car dealing and the survival of retail bargaining / Steven M. Gelber -- Death and mourning -- American death / Peter N. Stearns -- Laid out in "big mama's kitchen": African Americans and the personalized theme funeral / Suzanne Smith -- Perception of the senses -- Making scents make sense: white noses, black smells, and desegregation / Mark M. Smith -- Sexuality -- Tainted love: the transformation of oral-genital behavior in the United States, 1970-2000 / Kevin White.