| Description |
xv, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Red v. blue marriage / June Carbone and Naomi Cahn -- International family change and continuity : the past and future from the developmental idealism perspective / Arland Thornton -- The division of household labor across time and generations / Margaret F. Brinig -- Marriage at the crossroads in England and Wales / Rebecca Probert -- The curious relationship of marriage and freedom / Katherine Franke -- Institutional, companionate, and individualistic marriages : change over time and implications for marital quality / Paul R. Amato -- Marriage and improved well-being: using twins to parse the correlation, asking how marriage helps, and wondering why more people don't buy a bargain / Robert E. Emery, Erin E. Horn, and Christopher R. Beam -- Fragile families: debates, facts, and solutions / Sara S. McLanahan and Irwin Garfinkel -- Should marriage matter? / Ira Mark Ellman and Sanford L. Braver -- Forsaking no others : coming to terms with family diversity / Judith Stacey -- Why marriage? / Suzanne B. Goldberg -- Essential to virtue? : the languages of the law of marriage / Carl E. Schneider -- The pluralistic vision of marriage / Shahar Lifshitz -- The growing diversity of two-parent families : challenges for family law / Andrew J. Cherlin -- Legal regulation of twenty-first-century families / Marsha Garrison and Elizabeth S. Scott. |
| Subject |
Marriage -- United States.
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Marriage law -- Social aspects -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Garrison, Marsha, 1949- editor of compilation.
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Scott, Elizabeth S., 1945- editor of compilation.
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| ISBN |
9781107018273 hardback |
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1107018277 hardback |
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9781107623705 paperback |
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1107623707 paperback |
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