The Marriage and Family Experience: Intimate Relationships in a Changing Society

By Bryan Strong, Christine DeVault, Theodore F. Cohen

Book Overview

THE MARRIAGE & FAMILY EXPERIENCE offers a realistic look at relationships today, helping you see and understand the underlying issues at work in marriages, families, and all kinds of relationships. Real-life cross-cultural examples and features that encourage you to reflect on your own life and behavior make the thirteenth edition accessible and compelling. You'll find up-to-date information on adoptive parenting, childbearing patterns, gay and lesbian families, the transgender experience, the meaning of virginity, gender roles, communication and conflict resolution, the influence of popular culture, and working families. With thorough coverage that reflects the diversity of families and relationships, the book illustrates how racial, cultural, economic and sexual differences shape relationships and families, and offers a straightforward overview of the topics you must understand to succeed in your course. This is a book you can relate to -- and one you will want to read.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1305503104
• ISBN13: 9781305503106
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.2" x 10.1"

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By Far The Greatest And Most Informative Text I Have Ever Had

This text is both in-depth and well-informed. Nearly every faucet of the "family experience" is covered here, as well as looks at a variety of different cultures and their contrasting views to our own societal expectations. Taking this class and reading this text was probably the best thing I did in college, and I was neither a psychology nor a sociology major. Not only did I thoroughly enjoy the subject matter, employing what I have learned from this book to everyday life has helped me immensely, as well as my friends whom I regularly supply with advice. This is one textbook you won't want to sell back, and very worth the obviously hefty textbook fee.

Helpful Tool

I personally believe that this book does a good job on breaking all of the information down. It is more of an overview of the family, which I think is helpful for an introductory course. I think it is a good book!