The Ties That Bind: The Perspectives on Marriage and Cohabitation

Social Institutions and Social Change

by Linda J. Waite (Editor), Christine A. Bachrach, Michelle Hindin (Editor)

The Ties That Bind was organized to review and assess the scientific evidence about the causes of trends in marriage and other forms of intimate unions. The contributors address these two questions: What do we know about the factors that influence the formation of marriages and other intimate unions, the timing of union formation, and the forms that unions take? What factors explain the dramatic changes in union formation we have observed over recent decades? Edited by Linda J. Waite. Co-edited by Christine Bachrach, Michelle Hindin, Elizabeth Thomson, and Arland Thornton.

Genres: Sociology

404 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2000

Reviews

[Cass · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great demographic overview of the changes in family life over the last 50 years with a particular focus on how cohabitation was popularized by the baby boom cohort.