The Search for Domestic Bliss: Marriage and Family Counseling in 20th-Century America

by Ian Robert Dowbiggin and Ian Dowbiggin

Why are Americans so bad at marriage? It's certainly not for lack of trying. By the early 21st century Americans were spending billions on marriage and family counseling, seeking advice and guidance from some 50,000 experts. And yet, the divorce rate suggests that all of this therapeutic intervention isn't making couples happier or marriages more durable. Quite the contrary, Ian Dowbiggin tells us in this thought-provoking book: the "caring industry"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 070061947X
• ISBN13: 9780700619474
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"