Marriages and families : diversity and change - Schwartz, Mary Ann.; Scott, BarBara Marliene (Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall/Pearson, 2010)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 482-513) and index.
Keywords: Marriage -- United States; Family -- United States