Marriages and families : diversity and change /
Mary Ann Schwartz, BarBara Marliene Scott.
- 6th ed.
- Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall/Pearson, c2010.
- xxiii, 547 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 482-513) and indexes.
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.