The marriage and family experience : intimate relationships in a changing society /
Strong, Bryan.
The marriage and family experience : intimate relationships in a changing society / Bryan Strong, Christine DeVault, Theodore F. Cohen. - 11th ed. - Belmont, CA : Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, c2011. - xxv, 615 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 540-589) and indexes.
Meaning of marriage and family -- Studying marriage and famiies -- Variations in American family life -- Gender and family -- Intimacy, friendship and love -- Understanding sex and sexualities -- Communication, power, and conflict -- Marriages in societal and individual perspective -- Unmarried lives: Singlehood and cohabitation -- Becoming parents and experiencing parenthood -- Marriage, work, and economics -- Intimate violence and sexual abuse -- Coming apart : separation and divorce -- New beginnings : single-parent families, remarriages, and blended families -- appendix A: Sexual structure and the sexual response cycle -- appendix B: Pregnancy, conception, and fetal development -- appendix C: The budget process.
9780534624255 (hbk. : student ed.) 0534624251 (hbk. : student ed.) 9780840032218 (looseleaf ed.) 0840032218 (looseleaf ed.)
2009942041
Marriage.
Families.
306.8 / STR
The marriage and family experience : intimate relationships in a changing society / Bryan Strong, Christine DeVault, Theodore F. Cohen. - 11th ed. - Belmont, CA : Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, c2011. - xxv, 615 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 540-589) and indexes.
Meaning of marriage and family -- Studying marriage and famiies -- Variations in American family life -- Gender and family -- Intimacy, friendship and love -- Understanding sex and sexualities -- Communication, power, and conflict -- Marriages in societal and individual perspective -- Unmarried lives: Singlehood and cohabitation -- Becoming parents and experiencing parenthood -- Marriage, work, and economics -- Intimate violence and sexual abuse -- Coming apart : separation and divorce -- New beginnings : single-parent families, remarriages, and blended families -- appendix A: Sexual structure and the sexual response cycle -- appendix B: Pregnancy, conception, and fetal development -- appendix C: The budget process.
9780534624255 (hbk. : student ed.) 0534624251 (hbk. : student ed.) 9780840032218 (looseleaf ed.) 0840032218 (looseleaf ed.)
2009942041
Marriage.
Families.
306.8 / STR