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ISBN 10: 1305503104

ISBN 13: 9781305503106

Author: Bryan Strong; Theodore F. Cohen

THE MARRIAGE & FAMILY EXPERIENCE: INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS IN A CHANGING SOCIETY brings together all elements of the course — including intimate relationships, family policy, and family issues. Balancing an academic and more functional approach, the authors draw from research to present a sociological and family studies base enhanced by perspectives from anthropology, history, psychology, journalism, literature, economics, and gender studies. The book explores recent research on topics such as adoptive parenting, the transgender experience, childbearing patterns, gay and lesbian families, communication and conflict resolution, and the influence of popular culture. Real-life examples and a focus on self-assessment and reflection make the book accessible and encourage students to think for themselves. The thirteenth edition retains a progressive approach to diversity yet remains rooted in a positive, pro-family perspective.

The Marriage and Family Experience Intimate Relationships in a Changing Society 13th Table of contents:

Chapter 1. The Meaning of Marriage and the Family
Personal Experience, Social Controversy, and Wishful Thinking
Experience versus Expertise
Dramatic Changes, Increasing Diversity, and Continuing Controversy
What Is Marriage? What Is Family?
Defining Marriage
Who May Marry?
Forms of Marriage
Defining Family
What Families Do: Functions of Marriages and Families
Why Live in Families?
Extended Families and Kinship
Kinship Systems
Multiple Viewpoints of Families
Half Full versus Half Empty
Conservative, Liberal, and Centrist Perspectives
Attitudes Toward Changes in Family Living: Accepters, Skeptics, and Rejecters
The Major Themes of This Text
Families Are Dynamic
Families Are Diverse
Outside Influences on Family Experience
The Interdependence of Families and the Wider Society
Summary
Key Terms
Chapter 2. Studying Marriages and Families
How Do We Know about Families?
How the Media Misrepresent Family Life
(Un)reality Television
Advice, Information, and Self-Help Genres
Researching the Family
The Importance of Objectivity
The Scientific Method
Concepts, Variables, Hypotheses, and Theories
Theoretical Perspectives on Families
Macro-Level Theories
Micro-Level Theories
Applying Theories to Family Experiences
Conducting Research on Families
Ethics in Family Research
Survey Research
Clinical Research
Observational Research
Experimental Research
Applied Family Research
How to Think about Research
Summary
Key Terms
Chapter 3. Variations in American Family Life
American Families across Time
The Colonial Era (1607–1776)
Marriages and Families in the 19th Century
Marriages and Families in the 20th Century
Late Twentieth-Century Families
Families Today
Factors Promoting Change
How Contemporary Families Differ from One Another
Economic Variations in Family Life
Class and Family Life
The Dynamic Nature of Social Class
Racial and Ethnic Diversity
Defining Race, Ethnicity, and Minority Groups
Racial and Ethnic Groups in the United States
Summary
Key Terms
Chapter 4. Gender and Family
What Gender Is, What Gender Isn’t
What Gender Is
What Gender Isn’t
Gender Socialization
Socialization through Social Learning Theory
Learning Gender Roles and Playing Gendered Roles
Continued Gender Development in Adulthood
College
Marriage
Parenthood
The Workplace
Gendered Family Experiences
Women’s and Men’s Roles in Families and Work
Continued Constraints of Contemporary Gendered Roles
Transgender Family Experience
Gender Movements and the Family
What about Men?
Summary
Key Terms
Chapter 5. Intimacy, Friendship, and Love
The Need for Love and Intimacy
The Intimacy of Friendship and Love
Why It Matters: The Importance of Love
Love and Families in the United States
The Culture of Love
Gender and Intimacy: Men and Women as Friends and Lovers
Gender and Friendship
Gender and Love
Showing Love: Affection and Sexuality
Gender, Love, and Sexual Activity
Sexual Orientation and Love
Love, Marriage, and Social Class
What Is This “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”?
Studying Love
Love and Attachment
Love and Commitment
Finding Love and Choosing Partners
The Relationship Marketplace
Physical Attractiveness: The Halo Effect, Rating, and Dating
Going Out, Hanging Out, and Hooking Up
Dating
Problems in Dating
Hooking Up
Jealousy: The Green-Eyed Monster
Breaking Up
Lasting Relationships through the Passage of Time
Summary
Key Terms
Chapter 6. Understanding Sex and Sexualities
Sexual Scripts
Gender and Sexual Scripts
Contemporary Sexual Scripts
How Do We Learn about Sex?
Parental Influence
Siblings
Peer Influence
Media Influence
A Caution about Data on Sex
Attitudes about Sex
Sexuality in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Adolescent Sexual Behavior
Unwanted, Involuntary, and Forced Sex
Virginity and Its Loss
Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Identities
Counting the Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Populations
Identifying Oneself as Gay or Lesbian
Sexual Frequency and Exclusivity
Anti-LGBT Prejudice and Discrimination
Bisexuality
Sexuality in Adulthood
Developmental Tasks in Middle Adulthood
Sexuality and Middle Age
Psychosexual Development in Later Adulthood
Adult Sexual Behavior
Autoeroticism
Interpersonal Sexuality
Oral–Genital Sex
Sexual Expression and Relationships
Nonmarital Sexuality
Marital Sexuality
Relationship Infidelity and Extramarital Sexuality
Sexual Enhancement
Sexual Problems and Dysfunctions
Causes of Sexual Problems
Psychological or Relationship Causes
Resolving Sexual Problems
Issues Resulting from Sexual Involvement
Sexually Transmitted Infections, HIV, and AIDS
Protecting Yourself and Others
Sexual Responsibility
Summary
Key Terms
Chapter 7. Communication, Power, and Conflict
Verbal and Nonverbal Communication
The Functions of Nonverbal Communication
Proximity, Eye Contact, and Touch
Gender Differences in Communication
Gender Differences in Partner Communication
Communication Patterns in Marriage
Premarital Communication Patterns and Marital Satisfaction
Sexual Communication
Demand–Withdraw Communication
Communicating Too Much?
Other Problems in Communication
Topic-Related Difficulty
Barriers to Effective Communication
Positive Communication Strategies
Power, Conflict, and Intimacy
Power and Intimacy
Sources of Marital Power
Explanations of Marital Power
Principle of Least Interest
Intimacy and Conflict
Experiencing Conflict
Dealing with Anger
How Women and Men Handle Conflict
Conflict Resolution and Relationship Satisfaction
Common Conflict Areas: Sex, Money, and Housework
When the Fighting Continues
Consequences of Conflict
Mental Health
Physical Health
Familial and Child Well-Being
Can Conflict Be Beneficial?
Resolving Conflicts
Agreement as a Gift
Bargaining
Coexistence
Forgiveness
Helping Yourself by Getting Help
Summary
Key Terms
Chapter 8. Marriages in Societal and Individual Perspective
Marriage in American Society
Behavior Trends
Attitudes about Marriage
The Economic and Demographic Aspects Discouraging Marriage
What about Class?
Does Not Marrying Suggest Rejection of Marriage?
Somewhere between Decline and Resiliency
Religion and Marriage
Who Can We Marry?
Marriage between Blood Relatives
Age Restrictions
Number of Spouses
Marriage Equality: The Controversy over Same-Sex Marriage
Who Do We Marry? The Marriage Market, Who and How We Choose
Homogamy
Black–White Intermarriage
Religion
Socioeconomic Status
The Marriage Squeeze and Mating Gradient
Marital and Family History
Residential Propinquity
Understanding Homogamy and Intermarriage
Theories and Stages of Choosing a Spouse
Why Marry?
Benefits of Marriage
Is It Marriage?
Or Is It a Good Marriage?
Predicting Marital Success
Background Factors
Personality Factors
Relationship Factors
Engagement, Cohabitation, and Weddings
Engagement and Cohabitation
Weddings
In the Beginning: Early Marriage
Establishing Marital Roles
Establishing Boundaries
Social Context and Social Stress
Marital Commitments
How Parenthood Affects Marriage
Middle-Aged Marriages
Families as Launching Centers
The Not-So-Empty Nest: Adult Children and Parents Together
Reevaluation
Aging and Later-Life Marriages
Marriages among Older Couples
Widowhood
Enduring Marriages
Summary
Key Terms
Chapter 9. Unmarried Lives: Singlehood and Cohabitation
Singlehood
The Unmarried Population
Never-Married Singles in the United States: An Increasing Minority
Types of Never-Married Singles
Singlism and Matrimania
Cohabitation
The Rise of Cohabitation
Types of Cohabitation
What Cohabitation Means to Cohabitors
Cohabitation and Remarriage
Cohabitation and Marriage Compared
Effect of Cohabitation on Later Marriage
Common Law Marriages and Domestic Partnerships
Gay and Lesbian Cohabitation
Same-Sex Couples: Choosing and Redesigning Families
When Friends Are Like Family
Summary
Key Terms
Chapter 10. Becoming Parents and Experiencing Parenthood
Fertility Patterns and Parenthood Options in the United States
Unmarried Parenthood
Forgoing Parenthood: “What If We Can’t?” “Maybe We Shouldn’t”
Waiting a While: Parenthood Deferred
How Expensive Are Children?
Choosing When: Is There an Ideal Age at Which to Have a Child?
Pregnancy in the United States
Being Pregnant
Sexuality during Pregnancy
Men and Pregnancy
Experiencing Childbirth
The Critique against the Medicalization of Childbirth
The Feminist Approach
What Mothers Say
Giving Birth
Infant Mortality
Coping with Loss
Choosing How: Adoptive Families
Why People Adopt
Characteristics of Adoptive Families
Open Adoption
Becoming a Parent
Taking on Parental Roles and Responsibilities
Parenthood and Traditionalization
Parental Roles
Motherhood
Fatherhood
What Parenthood Does to Parents
Strategies and Styles of Child Rearing
Contemporary Child-Rearing Strategies
Styles of Child Rearing
What Do Children Need?
What Do Parents Need?
Diversity in Parent–Child Relationships
Effects of Parents’ Marital Status
Ethnicity and Parenting
Gay and Lesbian Parents and Their Children
What about Nonparental Households?
Parenting and Caregiving throughout Life
Parenting Adult Children
Grandparenting
Children Caring for Parents
Adults and Aging Parents
Summary
Key Terms
Chapter 11. Marriage, Work, and Economics
Workplace and Family Linkages
It’s about Time
Time Strains
Work and Family Spillover
The Familial Division of Labor
The Traditional Pattern
Men’s Traditional Family Work
Women’s Traditional Family Work
Women in the Labor Force
Why Did Women’s Employment Increase?
Attitudes of and about Employed Women
Women’s Employment Patterns
Dual-Earner and Dual-Career Families
Typical Dual Earners
Housework
Emotion Work
Caring for Children
How the Division of Household Labor Affects Couples
Atypical Dual Earners: Shift Couples and Peer Marriages
Shift Work and Family Life
Peer and Postgender Marriages
Coping in Dual-Earner Marriages
At-Home Fathers and Breadwinning Mothers
Family Issues in the Workplace
Discrimination Against Women
The Need for Adequate Child Care
Older Children, School-Age Child Care, and Self-Care
Inflexible Work Environments, Stressful Households, and the Time Bind
Living without Work: Unemployment and Families
Families in Distress
Emotional Distress
Coping with Unemployment
Reducing Work–Family Conflict
Summary
Key Terms
Chapter 12. Intimate Violence and Sexual Abuse
Abuse, Intimate Partner Violence, and Family Violence: Definitions and Prevalence
Types of Intimate Partner Violence
Prevalence of Intimate Violence
Why Families Are Violent: Models of Family Violence
Individualistic Explanations
Ecological Model
Feminist Model
Social Stress and Social Learning Models
Exchange–Social Control Model
The Importance of Gender, Power, Stress, and Intimacy
Women and Men as Victims and Perpetrators
Female Victims and Male Perpetrators
Characteristics of Male Perpetrators
Female Perpetrators and Male Victims
Familial and Social Risk Factors
Socioeconomic Class and Race
Socioeconomic Class
Race
LGBT Experience of Intimate Violence
Emotional and Psychological Abuse
Spousal and Intimate Partner Sexual Violence
Dating Violence and Date Rape
Tweens, Teens, and Young Adults: Dating Violence and Abuse
Date Rape and Coercive Sex
When and Why Some Women Stay in Violent Relationships
The Costs and Consequences of Intimate Violence
Children as Victims: Child Abuse and Neglect
Prevalence of Child Maltreatment
Families at Risk
Hidden Victims of Family Violence: Siblings, Parents, and the Elderly
Sibling Violence
Parents as Victims
Elder Abuse
The Economic Costs of Family Violence
Responding to Intimate and Family Violence
Intervention and Prevention
Intimate Partner Violence and the Law
Working with Offenders: Abuser Programs
Confronting Child and Elder Abuse
Child Sexual Abuse
Children at Risk
Forms of Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse
Sibling Sexual Abuse
Effects of Child Sexual Abuse
Summary
Key Terms
Chapter 13. Coming Apart: Separation and Divorce
The Meaning of Divorce
The Legal Meaning of Divorce
The Multiple Realities of Divorce
Divorce in the United States
Measuring Divorce: How Do We Know How Much Divorce There Is?
Divorce Trends in the United States
Factors Affecting Divorce
Societal Factors
Demographic Factors
Life Course Factors
Family Processes
No-Fault Divorce
Uncoupling: The Process of Separation
Initiators and Partners
The New Self: Separation Distress and Postdivorce Identity
Establishing a Postdivorce Identity
Dating Again
Consequences of Divorce
Economic Consequences of Divorce
Noneconomic Consequences of Divorce
Children and Divorce
How Children Are Told
The Three Stages of Divorce for Children
Children’s Responses to Divorce
Perspectives on the Long-Term Effects of Divorce on Children
Just How Bad Are the Long-Term Consequences of Divorce?
Child Custody
Types of Custody
Noncustodial Parents
Divorce Mediation
What to Do about Divorce
Summary
Key Terms
Chapter 14. New Beginnings: Single-Parent Families, Remarriages, and Blended Families
Single-Parent Families
Characteristics of Single-Parent Families
Children in Single-Parent Families
Successful Single Parenting
Binuclear Families
Subsystems of the Binuclear Family
Recoupling: Relationship Development in Repartnering
Remarriage
Rates and Patterns of Remarriage
Characteristics of Remarriage
Marital Satisfaction and Stability in Remarriage
Remarried Families
A Different Kind of Family
The Developmental Stages of Stepfamilies
Stepparenting
Problems of Women and Men in Stepfamilies
Children in Stepfamilies
Conflict in Stepfamilies
Strengths of Stepfamilies
Summary
Key Terms
Bibliography

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