Contents

pp v-vi

Contributors

pp vii-xiv

Acknowledgments

pp xv-xvi

Introduction

pp 1-6

Part I - History, Demographics, and Economics – Multiple Perspectives on Families

pp 7-8

1 - Red v. Blue Marriage

pp 9-29

2 - International Family Change and Continuity

pp 30-53

3 - The Division of Household Labor across Time and Generations

pp 54-72

4 - Marriage at the Crossroads in England and Wales

pp 73-86

5 - The Curious Relationship of Marriage and Freedom

pp 87-104

Part II - Empirical Research on Family Change

pp 105-106

6 - Institutional, Companionate, and Individualistic Marriages

pp 107-125

7 - Marriage and Improved Well-Being

pp 126-141

8 - Fragile Families

pp 142-169

9 - Should Marriage Matter?

pp 170-198

Part III - Family Policy and Law for the Twenty-First Century

pp 199-200

10 - Forsaking No Others

pp 201-223

11 - Why Marriage?

pp 224-240

12 - Essential to Virtue?

pp 241-259

13 - The Pluralistic Vision of Marriage

pp 260-284

Comments

pp 285-286

14 - The Growing Diversity of Two-Parent Families

pp 287-302

15 - Legal Regulation of Twenty-First-Century Families

pp 303-326

Index

pp 327-344