Marriages and families :

Schwartz, Mary Ann.

Marriages and families : diversity and change / Mary Ann Schwartz, BarBara Marliene Scott. - 6th ed. - Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall/Pearson, c2010. - xxiii, 547 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 482-513) and index.

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.

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