Don't Roll Your Eyes Making in-Laws into Family

Name: Don't Roll Your Eyes Making in-Laws into Family
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ISBN: 9780230338999

ISBN-10: 0230338992

ISBN-13: 9780230338999

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ruth Nemzoff

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More than two million couples wed every year in the United States, bringing together a whole new family unit. The extended family may now include a hard to please mother-in-law who criticizes her daughter-in-law’s childrearing; or a patriarchal father-in-law who expects all the kin round the dinner table every Sunday; or a new spouse, who a year or decade out, still gets shellshock visiting the in-laws. If that wasn’t cause enough for a stiff drink, more than a million couples divorce each year, creating hard to define family structures. How do families handle the inevitable friction and how do they make sense of evolving family relationships? Ruth Nemzoff, an expert in family dynamics,…

Book details

List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 9/4/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



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Acknowledgments


Introduction: Don't Roll Your Eyes: Making In-Laws into Family



Why We Make In-Laws into Outlaws



Where Do I Fit In? The In-Law Parents Speak



How Many People Did I Marry? The Adult Children Speak



Have I Been Displaced? The Siblings Speak



Dueling and Other In-Law Games: The Two (or More) Sets of In-Laws



In Love, but Not in Law: Unrelated "In-Laws"



Diversity Comes Home: Intermarriage



Whose Child Is This? Grandparents, Parents, and Grandchildren



More Money, More Problems, Less Money, Still Problems



Until Death Do Us Part: Prepare for Illness and Death



Do Unto Your In-Laws



Films and Videos



Suggested Websites


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Index