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This expanded reader contains articles, essays, excerpts from books, journals, magazines, and newspapers on the topic of marriage and family. They have all been carefully selected for their diverse and stimulating content. To encourage discussion and introspection, critical thinking questions are included for each reading.

1. The Fifties Family: The Way We Never Were
2. The American Family: A Poem
3. Women Abandoning Work for Home: A Media Myth
4. Values in the Study of Culturally Diverse Families
5. Ethnicity and Gender Stereotypes
6. The Male Mystique
7. Making Love Work
8. On Jealousy
9. How to Fight Fair
10. Family Secrets
11. Wired Love: Courtship in the Age of E-mail
12. The Dilemma of Black Single Women
13. The Slumber Party
14. What Is Normal
15. Infidelity and the Science of Cheating
16. A Native American Birth Story
17. There is No Good Decision
18. Gay Families Come Out
19. Breaking Parental Ties
20. At Grandmaâ€™s Table
21. On Not Having Kids
22. Sharing the Baby
23. The Lament of the Older Parent
24. Thereâ€™s No Place Like Work
25. Beating the Clock
26. The Feminization of Poverty
27. What Pushes Your Stress Button? 28
I Want to Die at Home
29. Rules in Alcoholic Families
30. The Deadly Rage of a Battered Wife
31. Breaking the Silence
32. Marriage of Rape? 33
Children of Divorce: Ten Years After
34. When Dads Disappear
35. Friends Through It All
36. Single Mothers and Helping Kin in an African-American Community
37. Of Course You Love Themâ€”But Do You Enjoy Them? 38
Kwanzaa: A "New" Tradition for African Americans

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Readings in the Marriage and Family Experience

Readings in the Marriage and Family Experience

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