Marriage and Family: Perspectives and Complexities

Edited by H. Elizabeth Peters and Claire Kamp Dush

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July, 2009
Cloth, 448 pages, 18 halftones, 2 line drawings, 17 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-14408-7
$50.00 / £34.50

"This book should be in every university library . . . Essential." — Choice

"A valuable resource for understanding families and family change a decade into the twenty-first century. Its wide-ranging terrain and scholarly standards make this a book well worth having on the bookshelf." — Mick Cunningham, Population Studies

"This volume examines multiple issues facing contemporary families. It presents and discusses these issues from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, uses current trends and evidence to speculate on the future of marriage, and informs 'hot' policy debates regarding healthy and stable marriages. The book has a multidisciplinary richness with a distinguished group of scholars known for their expertise in marriage, its developmental trajectories, and its social, economic, and psychological consequences. An excellent and comprehensive volume." — David H. Demo, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and editor, Journal of Marriage and Family

"Bringing together historical and current thinking about marriage and family, this volume extensively covers marriage, addressing such issues as low-income couples and cohabitating as a trajectory toward as well as a substitute for marriage." — Marilyn Coleman, University of Missouri, and author of Families in the Twentieth Century

"Marriage and Family addresses the diversity of marriage and families from several angles and is strongly rooted in theory, with each author clearly presenting a theoretical lens through which he or she examines the literature." — Ben Beitin, Seton Hall University

Related Subjects

• Social Work and the Family
• Sociology

About the Author

H. Elizabeth Peters is professor of policy analysis and management and director of the population program at Cornell University. Her research focuses on family economics and family policy, examining the effects of public policies such as divorce laws, taxes, and welfare reform on family formation and dissolution decisions, inter- and intra-household transfers, and investments in children. Her research has been widely published in journals of economics, demography, and sociology. Claire M. Kamp Dush is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Science and is a faculty affiliate of the Initiative in Population Research at The Ohio State University. Her current work centers on romantic relationship quality and stability and their impacts on and interactions with human development.

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