Full Description
This text challenges students 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.
Contents
Marriages and families over time; ways of studying and explaining marriages and families; gender roles; the many faces of love; dating, coupling, and mate selection; sexuality and intimate relationships; nonmarital lifestyles; the marriage experience.; reproduction and parenting; challenges confronting today's families; evolving work and family structures; violence and abuse; the process of uncoupling - divorce in the United States; remarriage and remarried families; in later life; marriages and families in the 21st century.
