Description: I. DATING AND MATING. Initiating and Dissolving Relationships. 1. Dating: Attracting and Meeting, Bernard I. Murstein. 2. Loving and Leaving: Sex Differences in Romantic Attachments, Zick Rubin, Letitia Anne Peplau, and Charles T. Hill. 3. The Courtship Game: Power in the Sexual Encounter, Naomi B. McCormick and Clinton J. Jesser. Date Violence. 4. The Incidence of Violence and Acquaintance Rape in Dating Relationships Among College Men and Women, Marta Aizenman and Georgette Kelley. Premarital Sex. 5. The Sexualized Society, John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman Cohabitation. 6. Cohabitation: Recent Changes in the United States, Graham B. Spanier. II. MARRIAGE AND FAMILY RELATIONS. Changing Marital Roles. 7. Coming Apart: Radical Departures Since 1960, Steven Mintz and Susan Kellogg. 8. American Couples, Philip Blumstein and Pepper W. Schwartz. 9. The Division of Labor in Contemporary Marriage: Expectations, Perceptions, and Performance, Dana V. Hiller and William W. Philliber.10. Marriage, Family Life, and Women's Employment, Jane Riblett Wilkie. Marriage Over the Life Cycle. 11. The Changing Family Life Cycle, Betty Carter and Monica McGoldrick.12. Sexuality in the Early Years of Marriage, Cathy Stein Greenblat.13. The Sexual Stages of Marriage, Ellen Frank and Carol Anderson. 14. Factors in Long-Term Marriages, Robert H. Lauer and Jeanette C. Lauer.15. Extramarital Sex, Anthony P. Thompson.16. The Marriage License as a Hitting License, Murray A. Straus, Richard J. Gelles, and Suzanne K. Steinmetz.17. The Family in an Aging Society, Matilda White Riley.18. Widowhood, Starr Roxanne Hiltz. Parent-Child Relations Over the Life Cycle. 19. Folk Beliefs About Parenthood, E. E. LeMasters and John DeFrain.20. Making Difficult Choices Easier: Day Care and Children's Development, Donna King and Carol E. MacKinnon.21. America's Youth: A Changing Profile, Luther B. Otto.22. When Parent Becomes Peer: Loss of Intergenerational Boundaries in Single Parent Families, David S. Glenwick and Joel D. Mowrey.23. Fatherhood and Social Change, Ralph LaRossa.24. Parent Care as a Normative Family Stress, Elaine M. Brody.25. Styles and Strategies of Grandparenting, Andrew J. Cherlin and Frank F. Furstenberg. III. DISSOLUTION AND ITS AFTERMATH. Divorce: Its Causes and Consequences. 26. Major Variations in the Family Life Cycle: Divorce and Remarriage, Betty Carter and Monica McGoldrick.27. Uncoupling, Diane Vaughan.28. The Divorce Process, Paul K. Rasmussen and Kathleen J. Ferraro.29. Divorce and Marital Instability Over the Life Course, Alan Booth, David R. Johnson, Lynn K. White, and John N. Edwards.30. The Impact of Divorce on Children, David H. Demo and Alan C. Acock. The Second Time Around: Remarriage and Stepfamilies. 31. The Six Stations of Remarriage: Developmental Tasks of Remarriage After Divorce, Ann Goetting.32. From Nuclear to Stepfamily Ideology: A Stressful Change, Barbara Fishman and Bernice Hamel.33. Children in Stepfamilies, Marilyn Ihinger-Tallman and Kay Pasley. IV. INTIMATE ALTERNATIVES AND ISSUES FOR THE FUTURE. 34. Multiple Marriage, Swinging, Adultery, and Open Marriage, Robert N. Whitehurst. 35. The Intimate Relationships of Lesbians and Gay Men, Letitia Anne Peplau and Steven L. Gordon. 36. Asexual Reproduction and the Family, John N. Edwards. 37. Age Wars: The Coming Battle Between Young and Old, Phillip Longman. 38. The Politics of the Family, Steven Mintz and Susan Kellogg. Appendix: Correlation Chart

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