02182nam a22003258a 4500 CR9781139087568 UkCbUP 20170413094210.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 110516s2012||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139087568 (ebook) 9781107018273 (hardback) 9781107623705 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda HQ536 .M3243 2012 306.81 23 Marriage at the Crossroads : Law, Policy, and the Brave New World of Twenty-First-Century Families / Edited by Marsha Garrison, Elizabeth S. Scott. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. 1 online resource (362 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). The institution of marriage is at a crossroads. Across most of the industrialized world, unmarried cohabitation and nonmarital births have skyrocketed while marriage rates are at record lows. These trends mask a new, idealized vision of marriage as a marker of success as well as a growing class divide in childbearing behavior: the children of better educated, wealthier individuals continue to be born into relatively stable marital unions while the children of less educated, poorer individuals are increasingly born and raised in more fragile, nonmarital households. The interdisciplinary approach offered by this edited volume provides tools to inform the debate and to assist policy makers in resolving questions about marriage at a critical juncture. Drawing on the expertise of social scientists and legal scholars, the book will be a key text for anyone who seeks to understand marriage as a social institution and to evaluate proposals for marriage reform. Garrison, Marsha, editor of compilation. Scott, Elizabeth S., editor of compilation. Print version: 9781107018273 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139087568 179422 179422