Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The meaning and significance of marriage in contemporary society
  • Part I. The revolution in marital behavior : the factual study
  • The future of marriage / Kingsley Davis
  • The recent decline of American marriage : Blacks and Whites in comparative perspective / Thomas J. Espenshade
  • Cohabitation in the 1980s : recent changes in the United States / Graham B. Spanier
  • Couples without children : premarital cohabitation in France / Elwood Carlson
  • Part II. The limits of variation in marital patterns
  • Darwinism and contemporary marriage / Donald Symons
  • The importance of marriage for socialization : a comparison of achievements and social adjustment between offspring of one- and two-parent families in Israel / Yochanan Peres and Rachel Pasternack
  • Part III. Comparative studies of marital change
  • Historical reflections on American marriage / John Modell
  • Japan : culture versus industrialization as determinant of marital patterns / Joy Hendry
  • Marriage, family, and the state in contemporary China / Margery Wolf
  • African marriage in an impinging world : the case of Southern Africa / Adam Kuper
  • A familistic religion in a modern society / James E. Smith
  • Part IV. Law and the revolution of sex roles
  • The divorce law revolution and the transformation of legal marriage / Lenore J. Weitzman
  • New models of marriage and divorce : significant legal developments in the last decade / Grace Ganz Blumberg
  • Part V. Calculation and emotion in the marriage market / Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman
  • Emotional aspects of contemporary relations : from status to contract / Alan A. Stone.