The Marriage-Go-Round

The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today

Nonfiction, Family & Relationships, Relationships, Marriage, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology
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Author: Andrew J. Cherlin ISBN: 9780307773517
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: December 8, 2010
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Andrew J. Cherlin
ISBN: 9780307773517
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: December 8, 2010
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

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 than Europeans, and gay Americans have more interest in legalizing same-sex marriage. The difference comes from Americans’ embrace of two contradictory cultural ideals: marriage, a formal commitment to share one's life with another; and individualism, which emphasizes personal choice and self-development. Religion and law in America reinforce both of these behavioral poles, fueling turmoil in our family life and heated debate in our public life. Cherlin’s incisive diagnosis is an important contribution to the debate and points the way to slowing down the partnership merry-go-round.

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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 than Europeans, and gay Americans have more interest in legalizing same-sex marriage. The difference comes from Americans’ embrace of two contradictory cultural ideals: marriage, a formal commitment to share one's life with another; and individualism, which emphasizes personal choice and self-development. Religion and law in America reinforce both of these behavioral poles, fueling turmoil in our family life and heated debate in our public life. Cherlin’s incisive diagnosis is an important contribution to the debate and points the way to slowing down the partnership merry-go-round.

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