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| Preface | |
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| Laying the Sociological Foundation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Sociology of Marriage and Family | |
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| How society molds our expectations | |
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| Issues in Marriage | |
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| Fundamental changes in marriage and family | |
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| What Is a Family Anyway? | |
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| Revolutionary changes | |
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| The War Over the Family | |
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| Reactions to change: Conservative and liberal | |
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| Social and Cultural Diversity | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Worlds of Pain | |
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| Social class diversity: The middle and working classes | |
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| African American Families | |
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| Racial and cultural diversity: African Americans | |
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| Mexican American Families | |
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| Racial and cultural diversity: Hispanics | |
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| Is Living Together Such a Good Idea? | |
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| Life style diversity: Cohabitation | |
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| Same-Sex Relationships | |
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| Life style diversity: Sexual orientation | |
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| The Diverse World of Single Adults | |
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| Life style diversity: Remaining single | |
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| Permanent Postponement | |
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| Life style diversity: Marriage without children | |
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| Love, Romance, and Intimacy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| First Comes Marriage--Then, Maybe, Love | |
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| Arranged marriages | |
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| Love and Property | |
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| The marriage market: Erotic property | |
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| From Strangers to Intimates | |
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| The process of intimacy | |
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| The Three Faces of Love | |
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| How do I love thee?. . . Let me count the ways | |
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| Communicating With One Another | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Love-Centered Marriage | |
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| Marriage as a process | |
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| Marriage and the Construction of Reality | |
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| The two becoming one: How perspectives merge | |
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| Uncovering Secret Contracts | |
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| How implicit assumptions affect reality | |
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| The Deadly Love-Anger Cycle | |
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| Dealing with anger | |
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| The Man-Woman Crisis | |
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| Sex roles: Searching for common ground | |
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| Parenting: Choices and Challenges | |
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| Introduction | |
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| 200 Years of Childbirth | |
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| Historical perspectives on childbirth | |
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| Centuries of Childhood | |
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| Historical perspectives on childhood | |
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| High-Tech Breeding | |
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| Technology and the brave new world | |
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| Is There Sex After Baby? | |
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| Adjusting to the new arrival | |
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| Principles for the Healthy Growth and Development of Children | |
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| Raising healthy children | |
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| Equity and Loyalty Among Brothers and Sisters | |
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| Sibling relationships | |
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| The Empty Nest | |
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| When children leave home | |
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| Work and Marriage | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Good-Provider Role | |
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| Who provides?: Historical shifts in relationships | |
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| Hard Choices | |
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| Careers, children, and childlessness | |
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| The Guilt That Drives Working Mothers Crazy | |
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| Trying to have it all | |
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| Confessions of a Househusband | |
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| On marriage and housework and relationships | |
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| The Myth of Male Helplessness | |
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| Making Your Dual-Career Marriage Successful | |
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| Building on strengths | |
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| When Nightmares Become Reality | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Date Rape | |
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| Sexual violence | |
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| Battered Wives | |
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| Why do they stay? | |
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| Explaining Family Violence | |
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| Just plain mean? | |
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| Alcoholism in the Family | |
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| Cumulative crisis | |
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| Marital Transitions: Divorce, Remarriage, and Widowhood | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Family Life Cycle--Its Stages and Dislocations | |
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| Entries and exits | |
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| Why So Much Divorce? | |
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| Much more than personal preference | |
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| How Children React to Divorce | |
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| When the world crumbles | |
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| How Adults React to Divorce | |
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| Divorce as a process | |
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| Effects of Divorce on Mothers and Children | |
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| The importance of support systems | |
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| The Divorce Revolution and the Feminization of Poverty | |
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| Inequities in divorce | |
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| The Stepfamily Cycle | |
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| Remarriage as a process | |
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| Beyond Widowhood | |
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| Coping with bereavement | |
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| Lasting Relationships | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What Makes Today's Marriages Last? | |
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| Negotiating treacherous waters: Money, work, and sex | |
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| Marriages Made to Last | |
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| Committed to one another | |
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| Five Types of Marriage | |
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| Varieties of relationships | |
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| Strong Families | |
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| Marriage and family as priority | |
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| Appendix: Correlation Chart | |