Marriages and Families : Diversity and Change

by Mary Ann Schwartz; Barbara Marliene Scott

• ISBN13: 9780130104311
• ISBN10: 0130104310
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

This book challenges readers to become involved in a direct way in examining their personal belief systems and societal views of the many diverse forms that marriages and families have taken in the past and their evolution in the present. The authors use a broad, inclusive approach, focusing on the link between social structure and their personal experiences of marriages, families, and intimate relationships. Marriages and Families Over Time. Understanding Gender. Dating, Coupling, and Mate Selection. Sexuality and Intimate Relationships. Nonmarital Lifestyles. The Marriage Experience. Reproduction and Parenting. Violence and Abuse. Divorce in the United States. Remarriage and Remarried Families. Families in Later Life. For anyone who is interested in exploring marriage and family issues.

Table of Contents

Marriages and Families over Time	1	(29)
Ways of Studying and Explaining Marriages and Families	30	(26)
Understanding Gender: Its Influence in Intimate Relationships	56	(26)
The Many Faces of Love	82	(29)
Dating, Coupling, and Mate Selection	111	(36)
Sexuality and Intimate Relationships	147	(45)
Nonmarital Lifestyles	192	(26)
The Marriage Experience	218	(34)
Reproduction and Parenting	252	(39)
Evolving Work and Family Structures	291	(28)
Violence and Abuse	319	(34)
The Process of Uncoupling: Divorce in the United States	353	(28)
Remarriage and Remarried Families	381	(23)
Marriages and Families in Later Life	404	(27)
Marriages and Families in the Twenty-First Century: U.S. and World Trends	431	(36)
Appendixes	467