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Human Intimacy Marriage, the Family, and Its Meaning (with InfoTrac)

by: Cox, Frank D.

Human Intimacy Marriage, the Family, and Its Meaning (with InfoTrac)

by: Cox, Frank D.

ISBN 13:
9780534625320
ISBN 10:
0534625320
Edition: 10th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 06/16/2005
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

This up-to-date, respected, and optimistic view of American families will encourage you to set realistic goals and make positive choices in your own relationships-and intelligently debate topics important to today's families. Interdisciplinary and always interesting, the Tenth Edition of Cox's classic book is a careful blend of applications, theory, and research designed to help you identify the characteristics that lead to successful marriages and families.

Preface

xix

Human Intimacy in the Brave New World of Family Diversity

(27)

Building Successful Relationships

(4)

Qualities of Strong and Resilient Families: An Overview

(4)

Can We Study Intimacy?

(2)

Optimism versus Pessimism

(1)

Making Decisions That Lead to a Fulfilling Life

(5)

Logic and Emotion in Decision Making

(1)

Decision-Making Steps

(3)

The Gift of Choosing

(1)

Theoretical Approaches to Family Study

(4)

Methods of Study

(3)

The Experiment

(1)

The Survey

(1)

The Clinical Method

(1)

Natural or Field Observation

(1)

Highlight: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and Delinquency Data

(1)

Group versus Individual Data

(1)

Strengthening the Family

(3)

Human Intimacy, Relationships, Marriage, and the Family

(32)

Family: The Basic Unit of Human Organization

(3)

Family Functions

(2)

The American Family: Many Structures and Much Change

(3)

Families Around the World: China: Families and Government Policy

(3)

Change within Continuity and Uniqueness within Commonality

(2)

Highlight: The Family Riddle

(1)

Highlight: Tricky Statistics: Cohabitation and Rejection of Marriage

(1)

Family: A Buffer against Mental and Physical Illnesses

(3)

The Need for Intimacy

(1)

Highlight: Why Do We Avoid Intimacy?

(2)

The Family as Interpreter of Society

(1)

Unique Characteristics of the American Family

(2)

Highlight: What the Research Says

(1)

Family: The Consuming Unit of the American Economy

(1)

American Families: A Great Diversity of Types

(8)

African American Families

(1)

Hispanic Families

(1)

Asian American Families

(1)

The American Indian and Alaska Native Population

(3)

Debate the Issues: Should Our Society Recognize Gay Marriages?

(1)

American Ways of Love

(32)

The American Myth: Romantic Love Should Always Lead to Marriage

(2)

Defining Love

(1)

Highlight: Love Is . . .

(6)

Theories of Love

(4)

Romantic Love

(1)

Making Decisions: Are You a Romantic or a Realist?

(4)

Infatuation

(1)

Loving and Liking

(1)

The Double Cross

(1)

What Research Tells Us: Love and Friendship

(4)

Love Is What You Make It

(3)

Highlight: Gender Differences in Love

(1)

Love in Strong Families: Appreciation and Respect

(1)

Learning to Love

(4)

Actions and Attitudes

(2)

Developmental Stages in Learning to Love

(2)

Love over Time: From Passionate to Companionate Love

(2)

Highlight: Love and the Loss of One's Self-Identity

(1)

Love's Oft-Found Companion: Jealousy

(4)

Debate the Issues: Are Love and Marriage Good for You?

(1)

Gender Convergence and Role Equity

(24)

Male = Masculine and Female = Feminine: Not Necessarily So

(2)

Norms and Roles

(1)

How Sex and Gender Identity Develop

(2)

Biological Contributions

(1)

Environmental Contributions

(1)

Gender Differences

(1)

Highlight: The Xanith of Oman

(1)

Role Equity

(1)

What Research Tells Us: Stereotypical Sex-Role Differences Compared with Research Findings

(2)

Traditional Gender Roles

101

(2)

Changing Male and Female Roles

103

(1)

Women and the Law

103

(1)

Families Around the World: The Dani of Irian Jaya (Indonesian New Guinea)

104

(3)

Highlight: ``Firsts'' for Women in the Past Three Decades

107

(1)

Gender-Role Stereotypes

108

(2)

The Movement toward Gender Equality

110

(1)

Highlight: Men as the Oppressed Sex

111

(4)

Debate the Issues: Can We Create Gender-Neutral Children?

115

(1)

Communications in Intimate Relationships

116

(35)

Good Communication: A Basic Strength of Successful Families

118

(4)

What Causes Communication Failure?

122

(2)

Aversive Communication

122

(1)

Communication Can Be Used for Good and Bad Purposes

123

(1)

The Foundation Blocks of Successful Communication

124

(2)

Commitment

124

(1)

Growth Orientation

125

(1)

Noncoercive Atmosphere

125

(1)

Developing a Smooth Flow of Communication

126

(2)

Communication Skills

128

(3)

Identifying Problem Ownership

128

(1)

Self-Assertion

129

(2)

Making Decisions: You-, I-, and We-Statements

131

(7)

Empathic Listening

133

(3)

Negotiating

136

(1)

Problem Solving

137

(1)

Men and Women: Do They Speak the Same Language?

138

(2)

Highlight: How Men and Women Can Communicate Better in Intimate Relationships

140

(1)

Communication and Family Conflict

141

(4)

Anger

143

(1)

Over What Topics Do Couples Conflict?

144

(1)

Family Life in the Information Age

145

(4)

Debate the Issues: Is Honesty Always the Best Policy?

149

(2)

Dating, Single Life, and Mate Selection

151

(36)

Premarital American Dating

152

(5)

Why Do We Date?

153

(1)

Premarital Dating Patterns

154

(1)

College Dating: Hanging Out, Hooking Up, Joined at the Hip

155

(2)

Dating and Extended Singleness

157

(1)

What Research Tells Us: Women and Singleness

158

(1)

What Research Tells Us: Singles in America

159

(1)

Changing Sexual Mores

159

(5)

Deciding for Yourself

162

(1)

Freedom of Choice and Sexual Health

163

(1)

Possible Problems Associated with Premarital Sexual Relations

163

(1)

Highlight: Dawn and Nonmarital Pregnancy

164

(1)

Making Decisions: Is My Sexual Behavior Healthy?

165

(1)

Date Rape and Courtship Violence

166

(2)

Cohabitation: Unmarried-Couple Households

168

(5)

The Nature of Cohabiting Relationships

169

(1)

Is the Woman Exploited in Cohabitation?

170

(1)

The Relationship between Cohabitation and Marriage

171

(2)

What Research Tells Us: Children and Cohabitation

173

(2)

Breaking Up

174

(1)

Living Together and the Law

174

(1)

Making Decisions: Questions for Couples Contemplating Living Together

175

(1)

Finding the One and Only: Mate Selection

176

(5)

Background Factors

177

(1)

Individual Traits

178

(1)

Interactional Processes

178

(1)

From First Impressions to Engagement

179

(2)

Engagement

181

(4)

Types of Engagements

182

(1)

Functions of Engagement

182

(3)

Debate the Issues: Does Sex Education Prevent Pregnancy or Encourage Promiscuity?

185

(2)

Marriage, Intimacy, Expectations, and the Fully Functioning Person

187

(36)

Marriage Matters

188

(1)

The Transition from Single to Married Life

189

(2)

Marriage: A Myriad of Interactions

191

(3)

Fulfilling Needs in Marriage

193

(1)

Families Around the World: Marriage in Japan

194

(2)

Defining Marital Success

196

(1)

Strong Relationships and Families

197

(1)

Highlight: A Hectic Schedule

198

(2)

Marital Expectations

200

(1)

Highlight: Carol: The Perpetual Seeker

201

(3)

The Honeymoon Is Over: Too High Expectations

201

(1)

Romantic Love or Marriage?

202

(1)

Differing Expectations

203

(1)

Eighty Percent I Love You; Twenty Percent I Dislike You

203

(1)

Highlight: Carl and Allison: The Perfect Couple

204

(7)

The Expectation of Commitment: A Characteristic of Strong and Successful Families

205

(2)

The Expectation of Primariness: Extramarital Relations

207

(3)

The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

210

(1)

The Self-Actualized Person in the Fully Functioning Family

211

(4)

Characteristics of Mental Health

211

(1)

Self-Actualization

212

(1)

Living in the Now

213

(1)

The Goals of Intimacy

214

(1)

You and the State: Legal Aspects of Marriage

215

(3)

Writing Your Own Marriage Contract and Prenuptial Agreement

217

(1)

Highlight: Navajo Marital Expectations

218

(1)

Making Decisions: The Couple's Inventory

219

(3)

Debate the Issues: Is Marriage a Dying Institution?

222

(1)

Human Sexuality

223

(31)

Making Decisions: Sex Knowledge Inventory

226

(1)

Human Sexuality in the United States

226

(2)

Highlight: The Sambians of Papua

228

(1)

Changing Sexual Mores

228

(1)

Modifying Sexual Behavior

229

(2)

Highlight: ``What Role Should Sex Play in My Life?'' Beth-Ann Asks

231

(1)

Differences between Male and Female Sexuality

231

(1)

Highlight: A Precoital Contract

232

(2)

Physiology of the Sexual Response

234

(1)

Female Sexual Response

234

(1)

Highlight: Female Genital Mutilation

235

(1)

Making Decisions: What Are Your Biggest Problems and Complaints about Sex?

236

(1)

Highlight: Describing Orgasm

237

(3)

Male Sexual Response

238

(1)

Variations in Sexual Response

238

(1)

Some Myths Unmasked

239

(1)

Does Sexual Addiction Exist?

240

(1)

Marital Sex: Can I Keep the Excitement Alive?

240

(2)

Highlight: One Husband's Sexual Life

242

(1)

Highlight: Sex and Physical Disability

243

(1)

Sex and the Aging Process

243

(3)

Menopause

244

(2)

Sex and Drugs

246

(2)

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

248

(4)

Debate the Issues: Pornography

252

(2)

Family Planning, Pregnancy, and Birth

254

(40)

Children by Choice

255

(1)

Are We Ready for Children?

256

(1)

Children Having Children

257

(3)

Family Planning Decisions

260

(3)

Deciding on a Contraceptive

261

(1)

Abortion

262

(1)

What Research Tells Us: Who Has Abortions?

263

(3)

Infertility

266

(2)

Prerequisites of Fertility

267

(1)

Causes of Infertility

267

(1)

Making Decisions: How Old Is Too Old?

268

(7)

Methods of Treatment: Designing Babies

269

(6)

Highlight: The Ultimate Breakthrough

275

(1)

Highlight: Who, in Fact, Are the Parents of Jaycee?

276

(1)

Pregnancy

276

(1)

Highlight: Am I Really Pregnant?

277

(8)

Pregnancy Tests

277

(2)

Environmental Causes of Congenital Problems

279

(4)

Controlling Birth Defects

283

(2)

Birth

285

(1)

Cesarean Birth

285

(1)

Highlight: Infant Mortality Rates

286

(6)

Birth Pain

286

(1)

Natural Childbirth

287

(1)

Rooming-In

288

(1)

Alternative Birth Centers

288

(1)

Home Births

289

(1)

Postpartum Emotional Changes

289

(3)

Debate the Issues: To Clone or Not to Clone

292

(2)

The Challenge of Parenthood

294

(41)

What Effects Do Children Have on a Marriage?

296

(3)

Highlight: The Highs and Lows of Parenthood

299

(2)

Traditionalization of the Marital Relationship

300

(1)

Parental Effectiveness

301

(3)

Highlight: Diversity in Child-Rearing Values and Practices

304

(11)

The Father's Role in Parenting

306

(3)

Television, Video Games, and the Internet as Surrogate Parents

309

(4)

Child Rearing, Discipline, and Control

313

(2)

Making Decisions: Using Discipline and Punishment Effectively

315

(2)

Spanking

316

(1)

The Growing Child in the Family

317

(5)

Infancy: The First Year

317

(2)

The Toddler: 2 to 3 Years of Age

319

(1)

Early Childhood: 4 to 5 Years of Age

320

(1)

School Age: 6 to 11 Years of Age

320

(1)

Puberty-Adolescence: 12 to 18 Years of Age

321

(1)

Highlight: To Tattoo or Not to Tattoo: Out Damned Spots!

322

(1)

The Young Adult: 19 to 30 Years of Age

323

(1)

Highlight: Adolescent Hormones and Brain Functioning

323

(1)

Highlight: Oh No, John Is Back Home Again

324

(1)

What Research Tells Us: Young Adults Living with Parents

325

(1)

Broader Parenting

325

(1)

Parents without Pregnancy: Adoption

326

(2)

The Single-Parent Family

328

(2)

Highlight: Father Absence in African American Homes

330

(3)

Debate the Issues: Should Parents Stay Home to Rear Their Children?

333

(2)

Family Life Stages: Middle Age to Surviving Spouse

335

(27)

What Research Tells Us: Increasing Life Expectancy

337

(1)

Dealing with Change: Another Characteristic of the Strong, Healthy Family

337

(1)

The Graying of America

338

(1)

Middle Age: The Empty Nest

339

(2)

Highlight: How a Highly Trained Engineer Became a Bicycle-Repair Man

341

(4)

The Sandwich Generation: Caught in the Middle

342

(3)

Retirement

345

(5)

Widowhood as the Last Stage of Marriage

350

(1)

Highlight: Doctor's Wife

351

(2)

The Adjustment Process and Remarriage

352

(1)

Highlight: Remarriage after the Loss of a Spouse

353

(1)

Highlight: Death of a Young Wife: A Young Father Alone

354

(1)

The Grandparenting Role

354

(3)

Highlight: Becoming Parents Again after Your Children Are Raised

357

(1)

Older but Coming on Strong

358

(2)

Debate the Issues: Should Physicians Help Terminally III Patients Commit Suicide?

360

(2)

The Importance of Making Sound Economic Decisions

362

(35)

What Research Tells Us: GNI per Capita in Various Countries

364

(1)

What Research Tells Us: Median Income of Households and Families

365

(1)

Slowly Drowning in a Sea of Debt

366

(2)

What Research Tells Us: How Much Do Americans Owe?

368

(1)

Making Decisions: Compare Your Attitudes about Money

369

(1)

Making Good Credit, Borrowing, and Installment-Buying Decisions

369

(3)

Discount Interest: Consumer Purchases

370

(1)

Simple Interest: Home Loans

371

(1)

Financial Problems and Marital Strain

372

(1)

The Seductive Society: Credit and Advertising

373

(1)

Effective Money Management

374

(4)

To Pool or Not to Pool Family Money?

375

(1)

Allocation of Funds: Who Makes the Spending Decisions?

376

(1)

Budgeting: Enlightened Control of Spending

376

(2)

Making Decisions: How to Budget Your Income

378

(1)

Saving through Wise Spending

378

(1)

Making Decisions: Budget Worksheet

379

(2)

The Economy and Black, Hispanic, Asian American, and Single-Parent Families

381

(1)

Inflation and Recession

382

(2)

Inflation

383

(1)

Families Around the World: Mexico: The Middle-Class Family

384

(3)

Periods of Reduced Inflation and Mild Recession

387

(1)

Deciding What Insurance Is Needed

387

(2)

Medical Insurance

387

(1)

Automobile Insurance

388

(1)

Home Owner's Insurance

388

(1)

Life Insurance

388

(1)

Deciding to Buy a Home

389

(2)

The Decision to Invest

391

(2)

Highlight: You Can Still Make a Million Dollars

393

(3)

Debate the Issues: Credit: The Way to Economic Well-Being, or a Slavery System?

396

(1)

The Dual-Worker Family: The Real American Revolution

397

(32)

What Research Tells Us: Women in the Workforce

399

(1)

Women and the Economy

399

(7)

Job Opportunities for Women

401

(2)

Pay Differentials between Men and Women

403

(3)

Making the Decision to Become a Two-Earner Family: The Wife Goes to Work

406

(8)

The Working Wife's Economic Contribution to the Family

407

(2)

Community Service and the Working Wife

409

(1)

Household Activities and Supermothers

410

(2)

Deciding in Favor of Part-Time Work

412

(2)

Child Care and Parental Leave

414

(2)

Stay-at-Home Moms

415

(1)

Employers, Pregnant Employees, and Working Mothers

416

(3)

Home-Based Work

419

(1)

Marital Satisfaction in the Two-Earner Family

419

(2)

Work and Family: Sources of Conflict

421

(2)

Jobs, Occupations, and Careers

423

(1)

Dual-Career Families

424

(3)

Commuter Marriage and/or the Weekend Family

424

(3)

Debate the Issues: Is Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Pervasive?

427

(2)

Family Crises

429

(35)

Coping with Crises

431

(1)

Stress: Healthy and Unhealthy

431

(1)

Highlight: Types of Stressor Events

431

(5)

Crisis Management

432

(3)

Defending against Harmful Stress

435

(1)

Highlight: Agencies That Can Help with Various Crises

436

(2)

Defense Mechanisms

437

(1)

Death in the Family

438

(7)

Natural Causes

438

(1)

Ambiguous Loss

439

(1)

Suicide and Homicide

439

(4)

Firearm Mortality

443

(1)

Grief and Bereavement

443

(2)

Accidents, Injuries, and Catastrophic Illness

445

(1)

Making Decisions: The Case of the Weinstein Family

446

(1)

Family Violence

447

(3)

Violence between Partners

447

(1)

Child Abuse

448

(2)

Sibling Abuse

450

(1)

Highlight: Repressed Memories of Incest

450

(2)

Peer Abuse

451

(1)

Parental Abuse by Children

451

(1)

Factors Associated with Family Violence

452

(1)

Poverty and Unemployment

452

(3)

Children and Poverty

455

(1)

The Military Family in the Time of War

455

(2)

Drug and Alcohol Abuse

457

(6)

Drugs and Drug Abuse

458

(2)

Alcohol

460

(3)

Debate the Issues: Should Drugs Be Legalized?

463

(1)

The Dissolution of Marriage

464

(32)

Let No One Put Asunder

465

(1)

What Research Tells Us: Divorce Facts

466

(1)

Reasons for America's High Divorce Rate

467

(2)

Emotional Divorce and the Emotions of Divorce

469

(2)

Highlight: Not One Divorce but Six

471

(1)

Highlight: Divorce: Constant Self-Questioning

472

(1)

Divorce but Not the End of the Relationship

473

(1)

Making Decisions: What Changes Must Be Made with Divorce?

474

(1)

Problems of the Newly Divorced

475

(5)

Economic Consequences

476

(2)

Children and Divorce

478

(2)

What Research Tells Us: The Children of Divorce

480

(4)

Types of Child Custody

482

(2)

Highlight: Divorce and Dad

484

(1)

Divorce: The Legalities

484

(4)

Some Cautions about No-Fault Divorce

487

(1)

Divorce Counseling and Mediation

488

(1)

Reducing Divorce Rates

489

(1)

Divorce May Not Be the Answer

490

(5)

Debate the Issues: Should Couples Stay Together for the Sake of the Children?

495

(1)

Remarriage: A Growing Way of American Life

496

(27)

Returning to Single Life

499

(3)

Cohabitation as a Courtship Step to Remarriage

502

(1)

Remarriage: Will I Make the Same Mistakes Again?

502

(2)

Highlight: Bob, Carol, Ted, and Alice

504

(3)

Family Law and Stepfamilies

507

(1)

Child-Support Obligations

507

(1)

Custody and Visitation of Stepchildren

508

(1)

His, Hers, and Ours: The Stepfamily

508

(2)

Highlight: How to Ruin a Remarriage

510

(2)

Highlight: The Ten Commandments of Stepparenting

512

(3)

Weekend Visits of the Noncustodial Child

512

(2)

Dealing with Sexuality in the Stepfamily

514

(1)

Highlight: How Much Closer Can We Get?

515

(1)

The New Extended Family

515

(2)

Building Stepfamily Strengths

517

(4)

The Prenuptial Agreement

517

(1)

Mediation to Settle Conflicts and Other Prevention Programs

518

(3)

Debate the Issues: Fatherless America: Can a Stepfather Take the Place of a Biological Father?

521

(2)

Actively Seeking Marital Growth and Fulfillment

523

(21)

``And They Lived Happily Ever After''

525

(2)

Highlight: Economic Success, Marital Failure

527

(1)

Highlight: Self-Improvement, Marital Failure

528

(1)

Marriage Improvement Programs

529

(5)

Guidelines for Choosing Marriage Improvement Programs

532

(2)

Highlight: A Family Life Enrichment Weekend

534

(3)

An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure: Marriage Enrichment

535

(2)

Highlight: Marriage Encounter

537

(1)

Marriage with Purpose: Effective Management

538

(2)

In the Future, the Family Will Remain and Diversify

540

(4)

Appendix A Sexually Transmitted Diseases

544

(10)

Appendix B Contraceptive Methods

554

(7)

Glossary

561

(2)

References

563

(18)

Credits

581

(2)

Author Index

583

(4)

Subject Index

587

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