The Marriage-Go-Round illuminates the shifting nature of America's most cherished social institution and explains its striking differences from marriage in othe
From one of the nation’s leading experts on the American family, a book that explores the state of marriage in America today; its evolution culturally; and wi
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 devel
With roller coaster changes in marriage and divorce rates apparently leveling off in the 1980s, Andrew Cherlin feels that the time is right for an overall asses
Two generations ago, young men and women with only a high-school degree would have entered the plentiful industrial occupations which then sustained the middle-