The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today

by Andrew J. Cherlin

Book Overview

In a landmark book that's intriguing [and] provocative and presents an original thesis [to explain] this peculiar paradox--we idealize marriage and yet we're so bad at it" (The New York Times).

Andrew J. Cherlin's three decades of study have shown him that marriage in America is a social and political battlefield in a way that it isn't in other developed countries. Americans marry and divorce more often and have more live-in partners...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307386384
• ISBN13: 9780307386380
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.0"