Description: "Outstanding Title!... A comparative analysis of the dating and marital experiences of three cohorts of American women who married between 1925 and 1984. Based on in-depth, retrospective interviews conducted with a sample of 459 Detroit-area women, the findings of this study challenge a number of common beliefs about the impact of premarital behavior on marriage... An exemplary model of an empirical report about changing courtship patterns and marriage, this work is highly recommended for libraries serving upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals in social sciences and human services." --K. R. Broschart, Choice "The state of marriage and dating is described in detail in this book by Martin King Whyte... [T]his is a thoughtful and interesting analysis." --Elizabeth Hervey Stephen, Journal of Marriage and Family "This book addresses contemporary fears about the troubled state of marriage in America but approaches the problem from a novel perspective. The book is less concerned with marital breakdown than it is with the process by which people enter the state of matrimony... The book successfully manages to meet different levels of interest and methodological sophistication." --Jacqueline Scott, The Public Opinion Quarterly "Martin King Whyte nicely frames a number of questions about 20th-century family and family change in the United States in Dating, Mating, and Marriage." --S. Philip Morgan, American Journal of Sociology

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