02228nam a22003258a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141020003000170040002400200050002400224082001500248245017600263264005200439300005900491336002600550337002600576338003600602500007300638520097100711700004601682700004901728776003501777856007101812999001901883CR9781139087568UkCbUP20180107143415.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||110516s2012||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9781139087568 (ebook)  z9781107018273 (hardback)  z9781107623705 (paperback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aHQ536 b.M3243 201200a306.8122300aMarriage at the Crossroads :bLaw, Policy, and the Brave New World of Twenty-First-Century Families / [electronic resource]cEdited by Marsha Garrison, Elizabeth S. Scott. 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2012.  a1 online resource (362 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aThe 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.1 aGarrison, Marsha,eeditor of compilation.1 aScott, Elizabeth S.,eeditor of compilation.08iPrint version: z978110701827340uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139087568zCambridge Books Online  c236686d236686