Marriage and Family : : Perspectives and Complexities / / ed. by Claire Kamp Dush, H. Elizabeth Peters.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Amato, Paul R.,; Bergstrom-Lynch, Cara,; Brown, Warren A.,; Dunifon, Rachel,; England, Paula,; Fein, David,; Gates, Gary J.,; Hill, Shirley A.,; Johnson, Michael P.,; Kamp Dush, Claire M.,; Knox, Virginia,; Lichter, Daniel T.,; Low, Bobbi S.,; Manning, Wendy D.,; Metz, Tamara,; Nock, Steven L.,; Peters, H. Elizabeth,; Romero, Adam P.,; Smock, Pamela J.,; Sweeney, Megan M.,; Thornton, Arland,; Videon, Tami M.,; Wang, Hongbo,
• HerausgeberIn: Kamp Dush, Claire,; Peters, H. Elizabeth,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (414 p.) :; 18 halftones, 2 line drawings, 17 tables

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part 1. Perspectives on Marriage
• 1. Historical and Cross- Cultural Perspectives on Marriage
• 2. Marriage and Family: The Evolutionary Ecological Context
• 3. A Gender Lens on Marriage
• 4. Institutional, Companionate, and Individualistic Marriage: A Social Psychological Perspective on Marital Change
• Part II. Contemporary Families
• 5. Single Parenthood and Child Well- Being: Trends, Theories, and Evidence
• 6. Cohabitation and Parenthood: Lessons from Focus Groups and In- Depth Interviews
• 7. An Examination of Child Well- Being in Stable Single- Parent and Married Families
• 8. Reconsidering the Association Between Stepfather Families and Adolescent Well- Being
• 9. Parenting by Gay Men and Lesbians: Beyond the Current Research
• Part III. Strengthening Marriage
• 10. Supporting Healthy Marriage: Designing a Marriage Education Demonstration and Evaluation for Low- Income Married Couples
• 11. Differentiating Among Types of Domestic Violence: Implications for Healthy Marriages
• Part IV. The Future of Marriage
• 12. The Growing Importance of Marriage in America
• 13. The Future of Marriage and the State: A Proposal
• 14. Why Won't African Americans Get (and Stay) Married? Why Should They?
• 15. Race, Immigration, and the Future of Marriage
• Contributors
• Index