Marriage Markets

by Naomi R. Cahn and June Carbone

Book Overview

There was a time when the phrase "American family" conjured up a single, specific image: a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and their 2.5 kids living comfortable lives in a middle-class suburb. Today, that image has been shattered, due in part to skyrocketing divorce rates, single parenthood, and increased out-of-wedlock births. But whether it is conservatives bewailing the wages of moral decline and women's liberation, or progressives celebrating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199916586
• ISBN13: 9780199916580
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"