Marriages and families : diversity and change / Mary Ann Schwartz, BarBara Marliene Scott.
Material type: TextPublication details: Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall/Pearson, c2010.Edition: 6th edDescription: xxiii, 547 p. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN:- 9780205683147 (alk. paper)
- 9780205167166
- 9780205683147 (Paper)
- 306.80973 SCH
- HQ536 .S39 2010
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 306.80973 SCH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00213040 |
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.