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Marriages, families, and relationships : making choices in a diverse society / Mary Ann Lamanna, Agnes Riedmann, Susan D. Stewart.

By: Lamanna, Mary Ann [author.].
Contributor(s): Riedmann, Agnes Czerwinski [author.] | Stewart, Susan D [author.].
Publisher: Boston, MA : Cengage, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Edition: Fourteenth edition.Description: xxvii, 582 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780357368749.Other title: Marriages, families, & relationships [Cover title].Subject(s): Marriage | Families | Remarriage | Single people | Choice (Psychology) | Single Person | Choice BehaviorDDC classification: 306.8 L16
Contents:
Making family choices in a changing society -- Exploring relationships and families -- Gender identities and families -- Our sexual selves -- Love and choosing a life partner -- Nonmarital lifestyles: living alone, cohabiting, and other options -- Marriage: from social institutions to private relationship -- Deciding about parenthood -- Raising children in a diverse society -- Work and family -- communication in relationships, marriages, and families -- Power and violence in families -- Family stress, crisis, and resilience -- Divorce and relationship dissolution -- Remarriages and stepfamilies -- Aging and multigenerational families.
Summary: This book emphasizes a theme that is especially relevant in our modern and global world: making choices in a diverse society. Combining various theoretical perspectives with relevant examples, the text helps readers to understand how people are influenced by the society around them, how social conditions change in ways that affect family life, the interplay between families and the larger society, and the family-related choices that individuals make throughout adulthood.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 468-559) and indexes.

Making family choices in a changing society -- Exploring relationships and families -- Gender identities and families -- Our sexual selves -- Love and choosing a life partner -- Nonmarital lifestyles: living alone, cohabiting, and other options -- Marriage: from social institutions to private relationship -- Deciding about parenthood -- Raising children in a diverse society -- Work and family -- communication in relationships, marriages, and families -- Power and violence in families -- Family stress, crisis, and resilience -- Divorce and relationship dissolution -- Remarriages and stepfamilies -- Aging and multigenerational families.

This book emphasizes a theme that is especially relevant in our modern and global world: making choices in a diverse society. Combining various theoretical perspectives with relevant examples, the text helps readers to understand how people are influenced by the society around them, how social conditions change in ways that affect family life, the interplay between families and the larger society, and the family-related choices that individuals make throughout adulthood.

Junior High School Christian Living/Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao (CL/ESP)

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