Modern Marriage and Emerging Adulthood in the United States -- Dating, Hooking Up, and Love: Relationships during Emerging Adulthood -- Why Marriage Still Matters: Understanding Marital Paradigms During Emerging Adulthood -- I Want to Get Married...Just Not Right Now -- Marriage is Important...Just Not That Important -- Finding the Right Person to Marry -- The Influence of Parents and Families -- Social Influences and Marriage -- Gender and Gender Role Expectations -- The Counterculture of Married Emerging Adults -- Looking Ahead: The Future of the Marriage Paradox.
Summary:
" Marriage has been declared dead by many scholars and the media. Marriage rates are dropping, divorce rates remain high, and marriage no longer enjoys the prominence it once held. Especially among young adults, marriage may seem like a relic of a distant past. Yet young adults continue to report that marriage is important to them, and they may not be abandoning marriage, as many would assume. The Marriage Paradox explores both national U.S. data and a smaller sample of emerging adults to find out how they really view marriage today. Interspersed with real stories and insight from emerging adults themselves, this book attempts to make sense of the increasingly paradoxical ways that young adults are thinking about marriage. The combination of national trends, statistical findings, and quotations from emerging adults makes for a deep exploration of why we see the marital trends of today, and why they may not actually represent emerging adults moving away from marriage. "-- Provided by publisher. "The Marriage Paradox explores both national U.S. data and a smaller sample of emerging adults to find out how they really view marriage today. Interspersed with the real stories and insight from emerging adults themselves, this book represents the first attempt by scholars to make sense of the increasingly paradoxical ways that young adults are thinking about marriage"-- Provided by publisher.
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