The Marriage and Family Experience,
13th Edition

1. The Meaning of Marriage and the Family.
2. Studying Marriages and Families.
3. Variations in American Family Life.
4. Gender and Family.
5. Intimacy, Friendship, and Love.
6. Understanding Sex and Sexualities.
7. Communication, Power, and Conflict.
8. Marriages in Societal and Individual Perspective.
9. Unmarried Lives: Singlehood and Cohabitation.
10. Becoming and Being Parents.
11. Marriage, Work, and Economics.
12. Intimate Violence and Sexual Abuse.
13. Coming Apart: Separation and Divorce.
14. New Beginnings: Single-Parent Families, Remarriages, and Blended Families.

• Bryan Strong

• Theodore F. Cohen

  Theodore Cohen is professor emeritus at Ohio Wesleyan University, where he was the Ella Fulton Dunham Professor of Sociology in the department of Sociology and Anthropology until 2019. He also has taught at a variety of public and private universities, including Boston University, Northeastern University, Clark University, Rowan University and most recently, The College of New Jersey. Throughout these different educational contexts, he has found that enthusiasm, humor and determination to engage students to apply sociological concepts to their own lives has worked with equal effectiveness in classes of nine or 90. He brings those same objectives to his writing. In 1990, Dr. Cohen received Ohio Wesleyan’s Sherwood Dodge Shankland Award for the Encouragement of Teachers, one of two awards Ohio Wesleyan gives for teaching excellence. In addition to being the co-author of THE MARRIAGE AND FAMILY EXPERIENCE since its eighth edition, he is the editor of MEN & MASCULINITY: A TEXT READER (Wadsworth 2001). He has published articles and book chapters on aspects of men's lives, especially their transitions to marriage and fatherhood, and on the family and work lives of a sample of nontraditional couples. Dr. Cohen's own family experiences include many of the issues covered and addressed in this text. He has been married, widowed, in a long distance relationship, remarried, separated, and divorced. He and his second wife are now once again happily married and living in New Jersey. He also is a father and stepfather. He earned his B.A. in sociology from Brooklyn College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Boston University.

• MindTap®, a cloud-based, interactive learning experience built on the book's content, is available with this text. MindTap guides students through the course by combining readings, videos and other multimedia resources, applied activities, and assessments into a Learning Path that focuses on the key concepts presented in the text. You can rearrange and add content, and easily measure students' skills and outcomes.

• The thirteenth edition provides the most current and up-to-date data available, integrating data from national surveys; information from reports by the Pew Research Center and the National Center for Family and Marriage Research; and official statistical reports from agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

• This text is available with MindTap®, a cloud-based, interactive learning experience. MindTap guides you through the course by combining readings, videos and other multimedia resources, applied activities, and assessments into a Learning Path that helps you grasp and understand key concepts. You'll also have access to tools and apps, including flashcards, note taking and highlighting, and even a text-to-speech app that allows you to listen to your reading assignments.

• The thirteenth edition provides the most current and up-to-date data available, integrating data from national surveys; information from reports by the Pew Research Center and the National Center for Family and Marriage Research; and official statistical reports from agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

• This is one of the few marriage and family books that offers a true balance between the two main branches of the market -- sociology and family science. It takes a liberal approach to detailing recent trends (in marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and singlehood), and to describing diverse lifestyles, especially regarding gender and sexuality, but remains firmly rooted in the positive, pro-family corner.

• What Do You Think? Self-quiz chapter openers let students assess their existing knowledge of what will be discussed in the chapter. These quizzes engage students, drawing them into the material and stimulating greater interaction with the course.

• Public Policies, Private Lives features focus on legal issues and public policies that affect how we think about and/or experience family life. Among them are features on sexting, adoptions that dissolve, the lack of legal policies about stepfamilies, the meaning of legal marriage, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and legal advice for cohabiting couples.

• Exploring Diversity boxes let students see family circumstances from the vantage point of other cultures, other eras, or within different lifestyles in the contemporary United States. New topics in this edition include cohabitation in Japan, arranged marriage in the United Arab Emirates, and "father school" in South Korea. Other topics include divorce in India, the phenomenon of posthumous marriage, and a cross-national survey on dating violence.

• Issues and Insights features focus on current and high-interest topics, including virginity loss; gender, sexuality, and bullying; "living apart together"; and whether or not to spank children. Several of these features discuss uses and abuses of technology in families and relationships.

• Popular Culture boxes discuss the ways family issues are portrayed through various forms of popular culture. New topics include the way media portrayals of gay couples (e.g., "Modern Family") may have contributed to rising acceptance of same-sex marriage, and the increasing visibility of the transgender experience.

• Real Families features give "up close" accounts of issues raised in the text as they are experienced by people in their everyday lives. Vignettes in this edition discuss blending and unblending families, co-parenting by gay men and lesbians, family caregivers, and recent stories that question the assumption of gender as binary.

• This is one of the few marriage and family books that offers a true balance between sociology and family science. It takes a liberal approach to sexuality, cohabitation, and other recent trends while remaining rooted in the positive, pro-family corner.

• What Do You Think? Self-quizzes draw you into the chapter by letting you assess your knowledge of what will be discussed in the upcoming material. Chapter Summaries and Key Terms help you review main concepts and important points.

• Public Policies, Private Lives features focus on legal issues and public policies that affect how we think about and/or experience family life. Among them are features on sexting, adoptions that dissolve, and the lack of legal policies about stepfamilies. Other topics include the meaning of legal marriage, the scope of the Family and Medical Leave Act, and legal advice for cohabiting couples.

• Issues and Insights features focus on current and high-interest topics, including virginity loss; gender, sexuality, and bullying; "living apart together"; and whether or not to spank children. Several of these features discuss uses and abuses of technology in families and relationships.

• Exploring Diversity boxes let you see family circumstances from the vantage point of other cultures, other eras, or within different lifestyles in the contemporary United States. New topics in this edition include cohabitation in Japan, arranged marriage in the United Arab Emirates, and "father school" in South Korea. Other features address divorce in India, the phenomenon of posthumous marriage, and a recent cross-national survey on dating violence.

• Popular Culture boxes discuss the ways family issues are portrayed through various forms of popular culture. Examples new to this edition include the coverage of transgender experience in popular media and whether a "Modern Family" effect helped raise the level of support for gay marriage.

• Real Families features give "up close" accounts of issues raised in the text as they are experienced by people in their everyday lives. Examples in this edition discuss blending and unblending families, co-parenting by gay men and lesbians, family caregivers, and recent stories that question the assumption of gender as binary (i.e., that an individual's gender can be categorized in only two ways, as either male or female).

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