Contents
Introduction - The Meaning and Significance of Marriage in Contemporary Society
Part I - The Revolution in Marital Behavior: The Factual Study
Chapter 1 - The Future of Marriage - Kingsley Davis
Chapter 2 - The Recent Decline of American Marriage: Blacks and Whites in Comparative Perspective - Thomas J. Espenshade
Chapter 3 - Cohabitation in the 1980s: Recent Changes in the United States - Graham B. Spanier
Chapter 4 - Couples Without Children: Premarital Cohabitation in France - Elwood Carlson
Part II - The Limits of Variation in Marital Patterns
Chapter 5 - Darwinism and Contemporary Marriage - Donald Symons
Chapter 6 - 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 - Comparitive Studies of Marital Change
Chapter 7 - Historical Reflections on American Marriage - John Modell
Chapter 8 - Japan: Culture Versus Industrialization as Determinant of Marital Patterns - Joy Hendry
Chapter 9 - Marriage, Family, and the State in Contemporary China - Margery Wolf
Chapter 10 - African Marriage in an Inpinging World: The Case of Southern Africa - Adam Kuper
Chapter 11 - A Familistic Religion in a Modern Society - James E. Smith
Part IV - Law and the Revolution of Sex Roles
Chapter 12 - The Divorce Law Revolution and the Transformation of Legal Marriage - Lenore J. Weitzman
Chapter 13 - New Models of Marriage and Divorce: Significant Legal Developments in the Last Decade - Grace Ganz Blumberg
Part V - Calculation and Emotion in Marriage
Chapter 14 - Marriage Squeezes and the Marriage Market - Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman
Chapter 15 - Emotional Aspects of Contemporary Relations: From Status to Contract - Alan A. Stone
Index