Full Description
Offering a positive view of the family, Cox's HUMAN INTIMACY: MARRIAGE, THE FAMILY, AND ITS MEANING, Eleventh Edition discusses the characteristics of successful intimate relationships, and teaches the decision-making skills that lead to strong marriages and families. You'll find coverage of such topics as diversity within the American family (including rural and military families), gay marriage, singles, cohabitation, gender roles, theories of love, date rape and courtship violence, and parenting and life stages.
Contents
1. Human Intimacy in the Brave New World of Family Diversity.
2. Human Intimacy, Relationships, Marriage, and the Family.
3. American Ways of Love.
4. Gender Convergence and Role Equity.
5. Communications in Intimate Relationships.
6. Dating, Single Life, and Mate Selection.
7. Marriage, Intimacy, Expectations, and the Fully Functioning Person.
8. Human Sexuality.
9. Family Planning, Pregnancy, and Birth.
10. The Challenge of Parenthood.
11. Family Life Stages: Middle Age to Surviving Spouse.
12. The Importance of Making Sound Economic Decisions.
13. The Dual-Earner Family: The Real American Revolution.
14. Family Crises.
15. The Dissolution of Marriage.
16. Remarriage: A Growing Way of American Life.
17. Actively Seeking Marital Growth and Fulfillment.
Appendix A: Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
Appendix B: Contraceptive Methods.
