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Full title: The Marriage and Family Experience: Intimate Relationships in a Changing Society, 14th Edition
Edition: 14th
Copyright year: 2021
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Author: Theodore F. Cohen; Bryan Strong
ISBN: 9780357378304, 9780357378304
Format: PDF
Description of The Marriage and Family Experience: Intimate Relationships in a Changing Society, 14th Edition:
Updated with the latest data and research, Cohen/Strong’s THE MARRIAGE & FAMILY EXPERIENCE: INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS IN A CHANGING SOCIETY offers a realistic look at modern relationships, helping you understand the underlying issues at work in marriages, families and other relationships. It explores adoptive parenting, childbearing patterns, gay and lesbian families, the transgender experience, virginity, gender roles, communication and conflict resolution, the influence of popular culture, working families and more. Thorough coverage reflects the diversity of families and relationships, illustrating how racial, cultural, economic and sexual differences shape relationships and families. Real-life, cross-cultural examples and self-assessment features encourage you to reflect on your own life and behaviors. The book’s straightforward overview of key topics helps you maximize your course success.Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Table of Contents of The Marriage and Family Experience: Intimate Relationships in a Changing Society, 14th Edition PDF ebook:
Brief ContentsContentsBoxesPrefaceChapter 1: The Meaning of Marriage and the FamilyPersonal Experience, Social Controversy, and Wishful ThinkingWhat Is Marriage? What Is Family?Defining FamilyWhy Live in Families?Extended Families and KinshipMultiple Viewpoints of FamiliesThe Major Themes of This TextSummaryChapter 2: Studying Marriages and FamiliesHow Do We Know about Families?How the Media Misrepresent Family LifeResearching the FamilyTheoretical Perspectives on FamiliesConducting Research on FamiliesSummaryChapter 3: Variations in American Family LifeAmerican Families across TimeHow Contemporary Families Differ from One AnotherRacial and Ethnic DiversitySummaryChapter 4: Gender and FamilyWhat Gender Is, What Gender Isn’tGender SocializationContinued Gender Development in AdulthoodGendered Family ExperiencesContinued Constraints of Contemporary Gendered RolesSummaryChapter 5: Intimacy, Friendship, and LoveThe Need for Love and IntimacyGender and Intimacy: Men and Women as Friends and LoversShowing Love: Affection and SexualityWhat Is This “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”?Finding Love and Choosing PartnersSummaryChapter 6: Understanding Sex and SexualitiesSexual Identity, Sexual Orientation, and Sexual ScriptsHow Do We Learn about Sex?Sexuality in Adolescence and Young AdulthoodGay, Lesbian, and Bisexual IdentitiesSexuality in AdulthoodAdult Sexual BehaviorSexual Expression and RelationshipsSexual Problems and DysfunctionsIssues Resulting from Sexual InvolvementSexual ResponsibilitySummaryChapter 7: Communication, Power, and ConflictVerbal and Nonverbal CommunicationGender Differences in CommunicationCommunication Patterns in MarriageOther Problems in CommunicationPositive Communication StrategiesPower, Conflict, and IntimacyExplanations of Marital PowerIntimacy and ConflictConsequences of ConflictResolving ConflictsHelping Yourself by Getting HelpSummaryChapter 8: Marriages in Societal and Individual PerspectiveMarriage in American SocietyWho Can We Marry?Marriage Equality: The Controversy over Same-Sex MarriageWho Do We Marry? The Marriage Market, Who and How We ChooseWhy Marry?Predicting Marital SuccessEngagement, Cohabitation, and WeddingsIn the Beginning: Early MarriageMiddle-Aged MarriagesAging and Later-Life MarriagesEnduring MarriagesSummaryChapter 9: Unmarried Lives: Singlehood and CohabitationSinglehoodCohabitationCommon Law Marriages and Domestic PartnershipsGay and Lesbian CohabitationWhen Friends Are Like FamilySummaryChapter 10: Becoming Parents and Experiencing ParenthoodFertility Patterns and Parenthood Options in the United StatesPregnancy in the United StatesExperiencing ChildbirthChoosing How: Adoptive FamiliesBecoming a ParentParental RolesStrategies and Styles of Child RearingDiversity in Parent-Child RelationshipsParenting and Caregiving throughout LifeSummaryChapter 11: Marriage, Work, and EconomicsWorkplace and Family LinkagesThe Familial Division of LaborWomen in the Labor ForceDual-Earner and Dual-Career FamiliesAtypical Dual Earners: Shift Couples and Peer MarriagesAt-Home Fathers and Breadwinning MothersFamily Issues in the WorkplaceLiving without Work: Unemployment and FamiliesReducing Work-Family ConflictSummaryChapter 12: Intimate Violence and Sexual AbuseAbuse, Intimate Partner Violence, and Family Violence: Definitions and PrevalenceWhy Families Are Violent: Models of Family ViolenceWomen and Men as Victims and PerpetratorsSocioeconomic Class and Race/EthnicityEmotional and Psychological AbuseSpousal and Intimate Partner Sexual ViolenceDating Violence and Date RapeWhen and Why Some Women Stay in Violent RelationshipsThe Costs and Consequences of Intimate ViolenceChildren as Victims: Child Abuse and NeglectHidden Victims of Family Violence: Siblings, Parents, and the ElderlyThe Economic Costs of Family ViolenceResponding to Intimate and Family ViolenceChild Sexual AbuseSummaryChapter 13: Coming Apart: Separation and DivorceThe Meaning of DivorceDivorce in the United StatesFactors Affecting DivorceUncoupling: The Process of SeparationConsequences of DivorceChildren and DivorceChild CustodyWhat to Do about DivorceSummaryChapter 14: New Beginnings: Single-Parent Families, Remarriages, and Blended FamiliesSingle-Parent FamiliesBinuclear FamiliesRemarriageRemarried FamiliesStepparentingSummaryGlossaryReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index
