Revitalizing the institution of marriage for the twenty-first century : an agenda for strengthening marriage / edited by Alan J. Hawkins, Lynn D. Wardle, and David Orgon Coolidge ; foreword by Linda J. Waite.

Contributor Hawkins, Alan J.

Imprint:Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Descriptionxxiv, 216 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:The Social Costs of De-Institutionalizing Marriage / Steven L. Nock. - Community Involvement and Its Limits in Marriage and Families / Margaret F. Brinig. - The Language of Health Versus the Language of Religion: Competing Models of Marriage for the Twenty-First Century / Don S. Browning. - A Plea for Greater Concern About the Quality of Marital Matching / Norval D. Glenn. - Why Covenant Marriage May Prove Effective as a Response to the Culture of Divorce / Katherine Shaw Spaht. - Good Incentives Lead to Good Marriages / Allen M. Parkman. - Strengthening Couples and Marriage in Low-Income Communities / Theodora Ooms. - Promoting Marriage as a Means for Promoting Fatherhood / Wade F. Horn. - Reflections on the Nature of Marriage / Brian Bix. - Adoption by Unmarried Cohabitants, Same-Sex Couples, and Single Persons in Europe / Rainer Frank. - Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) and the Family: Risk or Revival? / Ruth Deech. - Marriage and Belonging: Reflections on Baker v. Vermont / David Orgon Coolidge. - Marriage Policy and the Methodology of Research on Homosexual Parenting / Robert Lerner, Althea K. Nagai. - Institutionalizing Marriage Reforms Through Federalism / Lynn D. Wardle. - Fixing the Family: Legal Acts and Cultural Admonitions / Carl E. Schneider. - The Limits of the Law and Raising a Sentiment for Marriage / Laurence C. Nolan. - A Marriage Research Agenda for the Twenty-First Century: Ten Critical Questions / David Popenoe.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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