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Description:The institution of marriage is at a crossroads. Across most of the industrialized world, unmarried cohabitation and nonmarital births have skyrocketed while marriage rates are at record lows. These trends mask a new, idealized vision of marriage as a marker of success as well as a growing class divide in childbearing behavior: the children of better educated, wealthier individuals continue to be born into relatively stable marital unions while the children of less educated, poorer individuals are increasingly born and raised in more fragile, nonmarital households. The interdisciplinary approach offered by this edited volume provides tools to inform the debate and to assist policy makers in resolving questions about marriage at a critical juncture. Drawing on the expertise of social scientists and legal scholars, the book will be a key text for anyone who seeks to understand marriage as a social institution and to evaluate proposals for marriage reform.Contents:1. Introduction Marsha Garrison and Elizabeth ScottPart I. History, Demographics, and Economics - Multiple Perspectives on Families:2. International family change and continuity: the past and future from the developmental idealism perspective Arland Thornton3. Red v. blue marriage June Carbone and Naomi Cahn4. The division of labor across time and generations Margaret F. Brinig5. Marriage at the crossroads in England and Wales Rebecca Probert6. The curious relationship of marriage and freedom Katherine FrankePart II. Empirical Research on Family Change:7. Institutional, companionate, and individualistic marriages: change over time and implications for marital quality Paul R. Amato8. Marriage and improved well-being: using twins to parse the correlation, asking how marriage helps, and wondering why more people do not buy a bargain Robert E. Emery, Erin Horn and Christopher Beam9. Fragile families: debates, facts, and solutions Sara McLanahan and Irwin Garfinkel10. Should marriage matter? Ira Mark Ellman and Sanford L. BraverPart III. Family Policy and Law for the Twenty-First Century:11. Forsaking no others: coming to terms with family diversity Judith Stacey12. Why marriage? Suzanne B. Goldberg13. Essential to virtue? The languages of the law of marriage Carl E. Schneider14. The pluralistic vision of marriage Shahar LifshitzPart IV. Comments:15. The growing diversity of two-parent families: challenges for family law Andrew Cherlin16. Legal regulation of the twenty-first-century family Marsha Garrison and Elizabeth Scott.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Marriage at the Crossroads: Law, Policy, and the Brave New World of Twenty-First-Century Families. To get started finding Marriage at the Crossroads: Law, Policy, and the Brave New World of Twenty-First-Century Families, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The institution of marriage is at a crossroads. Across most of the industrialized world, unmarried cohabitation and nonmarital births have skyrocketed while marriage rates are at record lows. These trends mask a new, idealized vision of marriage as a marker of success as well as a growing class divide in childbearing behavior: the children of better educated, wealthier individuals continue to be born into relatively stable marital unions while the children of less educated, poorer individuals are increasingly born and raised in more fragile, nonmarital households. The interdisciplinary approach offered by this edited volume provides tools to inform the debate and to assist policy makers in resolving questions about marriage at a critical juncture. Drawing on the expertise of social scientists and legal scholars, the book will be a key text for anyone who seeks to understand marriage as a social institution and to evaluate proposals for marriage reform.Contents:1. Introduction Marsha Garrison and Elizabeth ScottPart I. History, Demographics, and Economics - Multiple Perspectives on Families:2. International family change and continuity: the past and future from the developmental idealism perspective Arland Thornton3. Red v. blue marriage June Carbone and Naomi Cahn4. The division of labor across time and generations Margaret F. Brinig5. Marriage at the crossroads in England and Wales Rebecca Probert6. The curious relationship of marriage and freedom Katherine FrankePart II. Empirical Research on Family Change:7. Institutional, companionate, and individualistic marriages: change over time and implications for marital quality Paul R. Amato8. Marriage and improved well-being: using twins to parse the correlation, asking how marriage helps, and wondering why more people do not buy a bargain Robert E. Emery, Erin Horn and Christopher Beam9. Fragile families: debates, facts, and solutions Sara McLanahan and Irwin Garfinkel10. Should marriage matter? Ira Mark Ellman and Sanford L. BraverPart III. Family Policy and Law for the Twenty-First Century:11. Forsaking no others: coming to terms with family diversity Judith Stacey12. Why marriage? Suzanne B. Goldberg13. Essential to virtue? The languages of the law of marriage Carl E. Schneider14. The pluralistic vision of marriage Shahar LifshitzPart IV. Comments:15. The growing diversity of two-parent families: challenges for family law Andrew Cherlin16. Legal regulation of the twenty-first-century family Marsha Garrison and Elizabeth Scott.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Marriage at the Crossroads: Law, Policy, and the Brave New World of Twenty-First-Century Families. To get started finding Marriage at the Crossroads: Law, Policy, and the Brave New World of Twenty-First-Century Families, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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