Marriage and Family: Perspectives and Complexities
Edited by H. Elizabeth Peters and Claire Kamp Dush
eISBN: 9780231520027
2009 (448 pages )
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Table of Contents
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List of Illustrations
(pages 9-10)
List of Tables
(pages 11-12)
Acknowledgments
(pages 13-14)
Introduction
(pages 15-32)
Part I: Perspectives on Marriage
(pages 33-34)
1. Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Marriage
(pages 35-64)
2. Marriage and Family: The Evolutionary Ecological Context
(pages 65-88)
3. A Gender Lens on Marriage
(pages 89-106)
4. Institutional, Companionate, and Individualistic Marriage: A Social Psychological Perspective on Marital Change
(pages 107-122)
Part II: Contemporary Families
(pages 123-124)
5. Single Parenthood and Child Well-Being: Trends, Theories, and Evidence
(pages 125-146)
6. Cohabitation and Parenthood: Lessons from Focus Groups and In-Depth Interviews
(pages 147-174)
7. An Examination of Child Well-Being in Stable Single-Parent and Married Families
(pages 175-208)
8. Reconsidering the Association Between Stepfather Families and Adolescent Well-Being
(pages 209-258)
9. Parenting by Gay Men and Lesbians: Beyond the Current Research
(pages 259-276)
Part III: Strengthening Marriage
(pages 277-278)
10. Supporting Healthy Marriage: Designing a Marriage Education Demonstration and Evaluation for Low-Income Married Couples
(pages 279-312)
11. Differentiating Among Types of Domestic Violence: Implications for Healthy Marriages
(pages 313-330)
Part IV: The Future of Marriage
(pages 331-332)
12. The Growing Importance of Marriage in America
(pages 333-356)
13. The Future of Marriage and the State: A Proposal
(pages 357-376)
14. Why Won’t African Americans Get (and Stay) Married? Why Should They?
(pages 377-396)
15. Race, Immigration, and the Future of Marriage
(pages 397-414)
Contributors
(pages 415-420)
Index
(pages 421-446)
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Marriage and Family: Perspectives and Complexities
Family life has been radically transformed over the past three decades. Half of all households are unmarried, while only a quarter of all married households have kids. A third of the nation's births are to unwed mothers, and a third of America's married men earn less than their wives. With half of all women cohabitating before they turn thirty and gay and lesbian couples settling down with increasing visibility, there couldn't be a better time for a book that tracks new conceptions of marriage and family as they are being formed.
The editors of this volume explore the motivation to marry and the role of matrimony in a diverse group of men and women. They compare empirical data from several emerging family types (single, co-parent, gay and lesbian, among others) to studies of traditional nuclear families, and they consider the effect of public policy and recent economic developments on the practice of marriage and the stabilization—or destabilization—of family. Approaching this topic from a variety of perspectives, including historical, cross-cultural, gendered, demographic, socio-biological, and social-psychological viewpoints, the editors highlight the complexity of the modern American family and the growing indeterminacy of its boundaries. Refusing to adhere to any one position, the editors provide an unbiased account of contemporary marriage and family.
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Marriage and Family: Perspectives and Complexities
Author(s):
Peters, H. Elizabeth, and Claire M. Kamp Dush, eds.
Keyword(s):
SW06; SW11; CSWO
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