Strong, Bryan. <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 540-589) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780534624255 (hbk. : student ed.) 0534624251 (hbk. : student ed.) 9780840032218 (looseleaf ed.) 0840032218 (looseleaf ed.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009942041 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Marriage.<br/>Families.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.8  / STR