A variety of situations may arise in which husbands and wives live in separate households,
temporarily or permanently, for reasons other than marital discord. Such living arrangements�…

Brenda Almond throws down a timely challenge to liberal consensus about personal
relationships. She maintains that the traditional family is fragmenting in Western societies�…

In the early 1980s the subject of violence in marriage was in danger of being overlooked
once again, as new social problems dominated the political scene, and the Government�…

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The chapter addresses the complex interplay between the new roles of women and men
and the diversity of family life courses (focusing on heterosexual individuals) in advanced�…

This paper reviews the research literature on the mother-daughter relationship as a
transmission structure for sexual socialization. While the research literature indicates�…

This book presents a unique way of looking at and understanding marriage behaviour,
based on detailed examination, by interview, of the joint lives of a small sample of married�…

Decreased mortality, altered patterns of fertility, and the increasing imbalance in sex ratios
during the second half of adulthood have had profound effects on families. This essay�…

Interpretations of family and domestic life are increasingly deprivatized, that is,
accomplished in various sites outside the household. Addressing this situation, this article�…

Because remaining love feelings for an ex-partner are negatively associated with recovery
from a romantic break-up, it may be helpful to decrease those love feelings. Love regulation�…