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The Marriage & Family Experience Intimate Relationships in a Changing Society (with InfoTrac)

by: Strong, Bryan; DeVault, Christine; Cohen, Theodore F.

The Marriage & Family Experience Intimate Relationships in a Changing Society (with InfoTrac)

by: Strong, Bryan; DeVault, Christine; Cohen, Theodore F.

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9780534609306
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0534609309
Edition: 9th
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 07/30/2004
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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The Marriage and Family Experience is an engaging, student friendly Marriage and Family best seller. The text's up-to-date material, real-life cross-cultural examples, and balanced presentation make it an accessible and compelling read for the Marriage and Family student. It successfully bridges all elements of the course, including intimate relationships, family policy, and family issues. The combination of this classic book's strengths fosters consistent positive student reaction and feedback semester after semester.

Preface

xxi

About the Author

xxix

UNIT I MEANINGS OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

The Meaning of Marriage and the Family

Personal Experience and Wishful Thinking

(1)

What Is Family? What Is Marriage?

(8)

Defining ``Family''

(2)

Defining Marriage

(1)

Who May Marry?

(5)

Forms of Marriage

(1)

Functions of Marriages and Families

(5)

Intimate Relationships

(1)

Economic Cooperation

(1)

Reproduction and Socialization

(1)

Assignment of Social Roles and Status

(1)

Why Live in Families?

(1)

Extended Families and Kinship

(2)

Extended Families

(1)

Kinship Systems

(1)

Cultural Constructions of Family Life

(1)

Contemporary Patterns of Marriage and Family Life

(2)

Summary

(5)

Studying Marriage and the Family

How Do We Know?

(4)

Thinking Critically about Marriage and the Family

(1)

Theories and Research Methods

(1)

Theories of Marriage and Families

(1)

Theoretical Perspectives on Families

(14)

Family Ecology Theory

(1)

Symbolic Interaction

(3)

Social Exchange Theory

(2)

Family Development Theory

(1)

Structural Functionalism

(1)

Conflict Theory

(2)

Family Systems Theory

(1)

Feminist Perspective

(2)

Applying Theories to Long-Distance Relationships

(1)

Conducting Research on Families

(9)

Survey Research

(4)

Clinical Research

(2)

Observational Research

(1)

Experimental Research

(1)

Researching Long-Distance Relationships

(1)

Summary

(5)

Dynamics and Diversity of Families

American Families across Time

(11)

The Colonial Era

(4)

Nineteenth-Century Marriages and Families

(3)

Twentieth-Century Marriages and Families

(4)

Aspects of Contemporary Marriages and Families

(5)

Factors Promoting Change

(4)

Social Class Variations in Family Life

(5)

Class and Family Life

(3)

The Dynamic Nature of Social Class

(1)

Racial and Ethnic Diversity

(11)

Changing Perspectives on Ethnicity and Family

(1)

African-American Families

(1)

Latino Families

(3)

Asian-American Families

(1)

Native-American Families

(1)

European Ethnic Families

(1)

Amish Families

(2)

Summary

(6)

UNIT II INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS

Contemporary Gender Roles

Understanding Gender and Gender Roles

102

(4)

Studying Gender

102

(1)

Gender and Gender Roles

103

(1)

Masculinity and Femininity: Opposites or Similar?

104

(2)

Gender and Sexual Orientation

106

(1)

Gender and Gender Socialization

106

(3)

Gender Theory

107

(1)

Gender Socialization via Social Learning Theory

108

(1)

Cognitive Development Theory

109

(1)

How Family Matters: Learning Gender Roles

109

(7)

Childhood and Adolescence

110

(3)

Gender Development in Adulthood

113

(3)

Gender Matters in Family Experiences

116

(6)

Men's Roles in Families

117

(2)

Women's Roles in Families and Work

119

(2)

Breakdown of Instrumental / Expressive Dichotomy

121

(1)

Constraints of Contemporary Gender Roles

122

(2)

Resistance to Change

123

(1)

Gender Movements and the Family

124

(3)

Summary

127

(5)

Friendship, Love, and Commitment

The Importance of Love

132

(1)

Love and American Families

133

(1)

Friendship, Love, and Commitment

134

(8)

Friendship and Love

135

(1)

Gender, Love, and Friendship

135

(2)

Gender Exceptions: ``Love between Equals''

137

(1)

Gender, Love, and Sexuality

137

(2)

Love, Marriage, and Social Class

139

(1)

Prototypes of Love and Commitment

139

(1)

Attitudes and Behaviors Associated with Love

140

(1)

Factors Affecting Commitment

141

(1)

The Development of Love: The Wheel Theory

142

(2)

How Do I Love Thee? Approaches to the Study of Love

144

(7)

Styles of Love

144

(1)

Dynamics and Differences: The Triangular Theory of Love

145

(3)

Love as Attachment

148

(3)

Unrequited Love

151

(1)

Jealousy: The Green-Eyed Monster

152

(5)

What Is Jealousy?

153

(3)

Gender Differences in Jealousy

156

(1)

Managing Jealousy

156

(1)

The Transformation of Love: From Passion to Intimacy

157

(4)

The Instability of Passionate Love

157

(3)

Intimate Love: Commitment, Caring, and Self-Disclosure

160

(1)

Summary

161

(5)

Communication, Power, and Conflict

Verbal and Nonverbal Communication

166

(1)

Nonverbal Communication

167

(4)

Functions of Nonverbal Communication

167

(1)

Proximity, Eye Contact, and Touch

167

(4)

Gender Differences in Communication

171

(1)

Communication Patterns and Marriage

172

(3)

Premarital Communication Patterns and Marital Satisfaction

172

(1)

Marital Communication Patterns and Satisfaction

173

(1)

Gender Differences in Partnership Communication

173

(2)

Developing Communication Skills

175

(7)

Styles of Miscommunication

175

(1)

Miscommunication and the Likelihood of Divorce

176

(1)

Why People Don't Communicate

177

(1)

Obstacles to Self-Awareness

177

(1)

Self-Disclosure

177

(2)

Trust

179

(1)

Giving Feedback

180

(2)

Mutual Affirmation

182

(1)

Power, Conflict, and Intimacy

182

(4)

Changing Sources of Marital Power

183

(1)

Bases of Marital Power

183

(1)

Relative Love and Need Theory

184

(1)

Principle of Least Interest

184

(1)

Resource Theory of Power

184

(1)

Rethinking Family Power

185

(1)

Power versus Intimacy

185

(1)

Intimacy and Conflict

186

(1)

Basic versus Nonbasic Conflicts

186

(1)

Experiencing and Managing Conflict

187

(7)

Dealing with Anger

187

(1)

Conflict Resolution and Marital Satisfaction

188

(1)

Common Conflict Areas: Sex, Money, and Housework

189

(3)

Resolving Conflicts

192

(2)

Summary

194

(6)

Singlehood, Pairing, and Cohabitation

Choosing Partners

200

(9)

The Marketplace of Relationships

201

(1)

Physical Attractiveness: The Halo Effect, Rating, and Dating

201

(5)

The Field of Eligibles

206

(3)

The Stages of Mate Selection

209

(1)

Dating and Romantic Relationships

209

(8)

Beginning a Relationship: Seeing, Meeting, and Dating

210

(2)

Power in Dating Relationships

212

(1)

Problems in Dating

213

(3)

Breaking Up

216

(1)

Singlehood

217

(5)

Singles: An Increasing Minority

218

(1)

Relationships in the Singles World

219

(1)

Culture and the Individual versus Marriage

220

(1)

Types of Never-Married Singles

220

(1)

Singles: Myths and Realities

220

(1)

Gay and Lesbian Singlehood

221

(1)

Cohabitation

222

(7)

The Rise of Cohabitation

222

(1)

Types of Cohabitation

222

(2)

Domestic Partnerships

224

(1)

Gay and Lesbian Cohabitation

224

(1)

Cohabitation and Marriage Compared

225

(3)

Impact of Cohabitation on Marital Success

228

(1)

Summary

229

(5)

Understanding Sexuality

Psychosexual Development in Young Adulthood

234

(12)

Sources of Sexual Learning

234

(3)

Developmental Tasks in Young Adulthood

237

(1)

Sexual Scripts

237

(3)

Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Identities

240

(6)

Psychosexual Development in Middle Adulthood

246

(1)

Developmental Tasks in Middle Adulthood

246

(1)

Sexuality and Middle Age

246

(1)

Psychosexual Development in Later Adulthood

247

(2)

Developmental Tasks in Later Adulthood

247

(1)

Sexuality and the Aged

247

(2)

Sexual Behavior

249

(4)

Autoeroticism

249

(2)

Interpersonal Sexuality

251

(2)

Sexual Enhancement

253

(2)

Conditions for Good Sex

253

(2)

Intensifying Erotic Pleasure

255

(1)

Sexual Relationships

255

(8)

Nonmarital Sexuality

255

(3)

Sexuality in Gay and Lesbian Relationships

258

(1)

Marital Sexuality

259

(2)

Extramarital Sexuality

261

(2)

Nonconsensual Sexual Behavior

263

(1)

Sexual Problems and Dysfunctions

264

(3)

Origins of Sexual Problems

264

(2)

Resolving Sexual Problems

266

(1)

Birth Control

267

(1)

Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS

268

(4)

Principal STD's

268

(1)

HIV/AIDS

268

(4)

Protecting Yourself and Others

272

(1)

Sexual Responsibility

272

(1)

Summary

273

(7)

Family Processes, Family Life Cycles

A Developmental Approach

280

(5)

Individual Development

280

(2)

Family Development

282

(3)

Beginning Marriages

285

(12)

Predicting Martial Success

285

(3)

Engagement, Cohabitation, and Weddings

288

(2)

The Stations of Marriage

290

(2)

Establishing Marital Roles

292

(4)

Establishing Boundaries

296

(1)

Youthful Marriages

297

(2)

Impact of Children

297

(1)

Individual Changes

298

(1)

Middle-Aged Marriages

299

(2)

Families with Young Children

299

(1)

Families with Adolescents

299

(1)

Families as Launching Centers

300

(1)

Reevaluation

301

(1)

Later-Life Marriages

301

(3)

The Intermittent Extended Family: Sharing and Caring

302

(1)

The Sandwich Generation

302

(1)

Retirement

303

(1)

Death and Dying in America

304

(4)

Attitudes Toward Death

304

(1)

The Process of Dying

305

(1)

Bereavement

306

(2)

Enduring Marriages

308

(3)

Summary

311

(7)

Should We or Shouldn't We? Choosing Whether to Have Children

Fertility Patterns in the United States

318

(4)

Forgoing Parenthood

320

(1)

Deferred Parenthood

321

(1)

Being Pregnant

322

(11)

Experiencing Pregnancy: Emotional and Psychosocial Changes

323

(2)

Sexuality during Pregnancy

325

(1)

Men and Pregnancy

325

(1)

Pregnancy Loss

326

(2)

Medicalization of Childbirth

328

(3)

Adoptive Families

331

(2)

Becoming a Parent

333

(5)

Taking on Parental Roles and Responsibilities

334

(3)

Stresses of New Parenthood

337

(1)

Summary

338

(6)

Experiencing Parenthood: Roles and Relationships of Parents and Children

Being Parents

344

(8)

Motherhood

344

(3)

Fatherhood

347

(5)

Who Actually Takes Care of the Children?

352

(3)

Active Child Care

352

(1)

Mental Child Care

353

(1)

Nonparental Child Care

353

(2)

Theories of Child Socialization

355

(3)

Psychological Theories

355

(1)

Learning Theories

356

(1)

Cognitive Development Theory

357

(1)

The Developmental Systems Approach

357

(1)

Symbolic Interaction Theory

358

(1)

From the Theoretical to the Practical: Expert Advice on Child Rearing

358

(3)

Contemporary Child-Rearing Strategies

359

(2)

Styles and Strategies of Child Rearing

361

(1)

Authoritarian, Permissive, and Authoritative Parents

361

(1)

Children's Needs, Parents' Needs

362

(4)

Biological Factors

362

(1)

Attachment

362

(1)

Individual Temperament

363

(1)

Basic Needs

363

(1)

Self-Esteem

363

(3)

Psychosexual Development in the Family Context

366

(1)

Parents Needs

366

(1)

Embattled Parents and Societal Insensitivity to Child Rearing

367

(1)

Issues of Diverse Families

367

(3)

Ethnicity and Child Socialization

368

(1)

Gay and Lesbian Parenting

369

(1)

Parenting and Caregiving in Later Life

370

(5)

Parenting Adult Children

370

(1)

Grandparenting

371

(2)

Children Caring for Parents

373

(1)

Caring for Aging Parents

374

(1)

Summary

375

(6)

Marriage, Work, and Economics

Workplace/Family Linkages

381

(2)

Work Spillover

381

(1)

Role Conflict, Role Strain, and Role Overload

382

(1)

The Familial Division of Labor: Traditional, Dual-Earning, and Nontraditional Patterns

383

(4)

The Traditional Pattern

384

(1)

Men's Family Work

384

(1)

Women's Family Work

385

(2)

Women in the Labor Force

387

(3)

Why Women Enter the Labor Force

388

(1)

Women's Employment Patterns

389

(1)

Dual-Earner Marriages

390

(5)

Typical Dual-Earners: Housework, Child Care, and the Second Shift

391

(3)

Marital Power

394

(1)

Marital Satisfaction

394

(1)

Atypical Dual-Earners: Shift Couples and Peer Marriages

395

(5)

Shift Couples

395

(1)

Peer Marriages

396

(1)

Coping in Dual-Earner Marriages

396

(1)

At-Home Fathers and Breadwinning Mothers

397

(3)

Employment and the Family Life Cycle

400

(1)

Family Issues in the Workplace

401

(6)

Discrimination against Women

402

(1)

Lack of Adequate Child Care

402

(3)

Inflexible Work Environments and the Time Bind

405

(2)

Living without Work: Unemployment and Families

407

(3)

Economic Distress

408

(1)

Emotional Distress

409

(1)

Coping with Unemployment

409

(1)

Poverty

410

(5)

Spells of Poverty

410

(1)

The Working Poor

411

(1)

Women, Children, and Poverty

411

(1)

The Ghetto Poor

411

(1)

Welfare Reform and Poor Families

412

(3)

Workplace and Family Policy

415

(1)

Summary

416

(7)

UNIT IV FAMILY CHALLENGES AND STRENGTHS

Family Violence and Sexual Abuse

Family Violence and Abuse

423

(4)

Types of Intimate Violence

423

(1)

Why Families Are Violent: Models of Family Violence

424

(2)

Multiple Causes

426

(1)

Prevalence of Family Violence

427

(19)

Common versus Extreme Violence

428

(1)

Women and Men as Victims and Perpetrators

428

(4)

The Cycle of Violence

432

(1)

Violence in Gay and Lesbian Relationships

433

(1)

Marital Rape

433

(1)

Dating Violence and Rape

434

(3)

When and Why Some Women Stay in Violent Relationships

437

(2)

Alternatives: Police Intervention, Shelters, and Abuser Programs

439

(2)

Child Abuse and Neglect

441

(3)

The Hidden Victims of Family Violence: Siblings, Parents, and the Elderly

444

(2)

Reducing Family Violence

446

(1)

Child Sexual Abuse

446

(7)

General Preconditions for Sexual Abuse

447

(1)

Forms of Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse

447

(1)

Children at Risk

448

(1)

Effects of Child Sexual Abuse

449

(2)

Treatment Programs

451

(1)

Preventing Sexual Abuse

452

(1)

Summary

453

(8)

Coming Apart: Separation and Divorce

Measuring Divorce: How Do We Know How Much Divorce There Is?

461

(1)

Divorce Trends in the United States

462

(1)

Factors Affecting Divorce

463

(6)

Societal Factors

463

(2)

Demographic Factors

465

(2)

Life Course Factors

467

(1)

Family Processes

468

(1)

No-Fault Divorce

469

(1)

The Stations of the Divorce Process

469

(2)

Marital Separation

471

(6)

Uncoupling: The Process of Separation

471

(2)

The New Self: Separation Distress and Postivorce Identity

473

(3)

Dating Again

476

(1)

Consequences of Divorce

477

(3)

Economic Consequences of Divorce

477

(3)

Children and Divorce

480

(7)

The Three Stages of Divorce for Children

481

(1)

Children's Responses to Divorce

482

(2)

Multiple Perspectives on the Long-Term Effects of Divorce on Children

484

(1)

How Bad Are the Long-Term Consequences of Divorce?

485

(2)

Child Custody

487

(5)

Types of Custody

487

(2)

Noncustodial Parents

489

(3)

Custody Disputes and Child Abduction

492

(1)

Divorce Mediation

492

(1)

What to Do about Divorce

493

(3)

Summary

496

(7)

New Beginnings: Single-Parent Families, Remarriages, and Blended Families

Single-Parent Families

503

(5)

Characteristics of Single-Parent Families

504

(1)

Children in Single-Parent Families

505

(2)

Successful Single Parenting

507

(1)

Binuclear Families

508

(5)

Complexity of Binuclear Families

508

(2)

Subsystems in the Binuclear Family

510

(2)

Courtship

512

(1)

Remarriage

513

(3)

Remarriage Rates

513

(1)

Characteristics of Remarriage

514

(1)

Marital Satisfaction and Stability

515

(1)

Blended Families

516

(10)

A Different Kind of Family

516

(1)

The Developmental Stages of Stepfamilies

517

(3)

Problems of Women and Men in Stepfamilies

520

(2)

Conflict in Stepfamilies

522

(3)

Stepfamily Strengths

525

(1)

Summary

526

(5)

Marriage and Family Strengths and Needs

Recurring Themes of This Book

531

(3)

Families Are Dynamic

531

(1)

Families Are Diverse

531

(1)

Families Satisfy Important Societal and Personal Needs

532

(1)

Families Need Societal Support

532

(2)

Marital and Family Strengths

534

(10)

Marital Strengths

534

(1)

Family Strengths

535

(1)

Ten Characteristics of Strong Families

536

(8)

Different Families, Different Strengths

544

(4)

Family Strengths and Ethnic Identity

544

(4)

Family Strengths and Family Form

548

(1)

Kin and Community

548

(3)

Intimacy Needs

549

(1)

The Extended Family: Helping Kin

549

(1)

Affiliative Kin

550

(1)

Friendship

550

(1)

Family in the Community

550

(1)

Strengthening Families through Family Policy

551

(2)

Summary

553

(2)

Appendix A: Sexual Structure and the Sexual Response Cycle

555

(8)

Appendix B: Pregnancy, Conception, and Fetal Development

563

(4)

Appendix C: The Budget Process

567

(6)

Glossary

573

(18)

Bibliography

591

(61)

Photo Credits

652

(1)

Indexes

653

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