Full Description
For courses in Marriage and FamilyExploring How Society Impacts Our Personal Connections in the Modern WorldMarriages, Families, and Intimate Relationships explores the question: can we still find intimate relationships in our complex world? Through an examination of the influences imposed upon modern life - an unpredictable economy, globalization, computerization, the all-pervasive media, etc. - the text attempts to pass along lessons that help students make lasting personal connections. The Fourth Edition discusses fundamental concepts and insights across social science disciplines to answer the questions that greatly matter to students. Students are engaged by high-interest, extremely useful information that blends the authors' combined strengths: teaching, consulting, counseling, researching, and publishing. The text is based in research yet remains highly readable, exploring topics of great interest to students' personal lives such as intimacy, family, and personal happiness in the context of their distracted, visually oriented world.Marriages, Families, and Intimate Relationships: A Practical Introduction, Fourth Edition is also available via REVEL (TM), an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience.
Contents
1. Seeking2. Understanding: Learning about Intimate Behavior3. Gender: The Meanings of Masculinity and Femininity4. Involvement: Dating, Pairing, and Courtship5. Love: The Many Faces 6. Communication: Realizing Effective Intimacy7. Sexuality: Interpersonal Sexuality, Sexual Values, and Behavior8. Marriage: The Ultimate Commitment?9. Variations: Nonmarital Families and Households10. Reproduction: Decisions about Having or Not Having Children11. Parenting: Children, Families, and Generations12. Work: Economics, Jobs, and Balancing Family Demands13. Crises: Managing Stress, Disaster, Violence, and Abuse 14. Uncoupling: Separation and Divorce15. Remarriage: Reinvented, Renewed, and Blended Families
