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Pearson Marriages and Families Diversity and Change 1997 Edition by Mary Ann Schwartz, Barbara M. Scott
This text challenges students to become involved in a direct way in examining their personal belief systems and societal views of the many diverse forms that marriages and families have taken in the past and their evolution in the present. The authors use a broad, inclusive approach, focusing on the link between social structure and their personal experiences of marriages, families, and intimate relationships. Table of contents :- Marriages and families over time ways of studying and explaining marriages and families gender roles the many faces of love dating, coupling, and mate selection sexuality and intimate relationships nonmarital lifestyles the marriage experience. reproduction and parenting challenges confronting today's families evolving work and family structures violence and abuse the process of uncoupling - divorce in the United States remarriage and remarried families in later life marriages and families in the 21st century.