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Marriages and families : diversity and change

Author
Schwartz, Mary Ann.
Title
Marriages and families : diversity and change / Mary Ann Schwartz, BarBara Marliene Scott.
Format
Book
Edition
5th ed.
Published
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2007.
Description
xxiv, 614 p. : ill., map ; 28 cm.
URL
<Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip072/2006031312.html
Other contributors
Scott, BarBara Marliene.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 547-597) and indexes. Paperback.
Contents
  • Marriages and families over time
  • Ways of studying and explaining marriages and families
  • Understanding gender : its influence in intimate relationships
  • The many faces of love
  • Dating, coupling, and mate selection
  • Sexuality and intimate relationships
  • Living single, living with others : nonmarital lifestyles
  • The marriage experience
  • Reproduction and parenting
  • Evolving work and family structures
  • Power, abuse, and violence in intimate relationships
  • The process of uncoupling : divorce in the United States
  • Remarriage and remarried families
  • Marriages and families in later life
  • Marriages and families in the twenty-first century : U.S. and world trends.
Kinsey subjects
Marriage--United States. Family--United States. Family life education.
ISBN
0132287692 9780132287692

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
162 S23 m2 2007
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute