Marriages and Families Changes, Choices, and Constraints

This extremely readable, best-selling text introduces students to the study of contemporary marriages and families in ways to which they can easily relate. It examines the changing American family and explores their choices and constraints. This approach, combined with a set of practical guidelines presented in each chapter, encourages students to think and act for themselvesand thereby join the effort to resolve some of the crucial issues confronting 21st century families. Although written from a sociological perspective, the text incorporates material from other disciplines as welle.g., history, economics, social work, psychology, law, biology, and anthropologyall supported by both quantitative and qualitative researchmost from the mid to late 1990s.Benokraitis, Nijole V. is the author of 'Marriages and Families Changes, Choices, and Constraints', published 2004 under ISBN 9780131305168 and ISBN 0131305166.