Marriages, Families, Intimate Relationships: A Practical Introduction

by Brian K. Williams, Stacey C. Sawyer, Carl M. Wahlstrom

This book provides timely, practical, and high-interest information about marriages, families, and intimate relationships, in an engaging format that is easy-to-use and learn from. Feature such as “Popular Culture and the Media,” “Practical Action,” and “Numbers that Matter” help grab and keep readers’ attention.   The new edition has been updated to include coverage of important issues, topics, and research from the past few years. Examples of new topics covered state abortion law updates, abstinence education controversy, adultolescents, children and the effects of TV watching, foster children, LGBT, living apart together (LAT) couples, post-adoption blues, safe-haven laws pro and con, Web 2.0, and more. 

585 pages, Paperback

First published March 29, 2005

Reviews

[Scott]

This was the third edition. It has some very interesting information in it. It goes nicely through the different stages of marriage and parenting.