Readings in the Marriage and Family Experience

by Strong, Bryan; DeVault, Christine; Sayad, Barbara W.

• ISBN13: 9780534537630
• ISBN10: 0534537634
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-26
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This expanded reader contains articles, essays, excerpts from books, journals, magazines, and newspapers on the topic of marriage and family. They have all been carefully selected for their diverse and stimulating content. To encourage discussion and introspection, critical thinking questions are included for each reading.

Table of Contents

1. The Fifties Family: The Way We Never Were

2. The American Family: A Poem

3. Women Abandoning Work for Home: A Media Myth

4. Values in the Study of Culturally Diverse Families

5. Ethnicity and Gender Stereotypes

6. The Male Mystique

7. Making Love Work

8. On Jealousy

9. How to Fight Fair

10. Family Secrets

11. Wired Love: Courtship in the Age of E-mail

12. The Dilemma of Black Single Women

13. The Slumber Party

14. What Is Normal

15. Infidelity and the Science of Cheating

16. A Native American Birth Story

17. There is No Good Decision

18. Gay Families Come Out

19. Breaking Parental Ties

20. At Grandma’s Table

21. On Not Having Kids

22. Sharing the Baby

23. The Lament of the Older Parent

24. There’s No Place Like Work

25. Beating the Clock

26. The Feminization of Poverty

27. What Pushes Your Stress Button? 28

I Want to Die at Home

29. Rules in Alcoholic Families

30. The Deadly Rage of a Battered Wife

31. Breaking the Silence

32. Marriage of Rape? 33

Children of Divorce: Ten Years After

34. When Dads Disappear

35. Friends Through It All

36. Single Mothers and Helping Kin in an African-American Community

37. Of Course You Love Them—But Do You Enjoy Them? 38

Kwanzaa: A "New" Tradition for African Americans