This work features 37 selections of enduring intellectual value - classic articles, book excerpts, and research studies - that have shaped the study of marriage and the family and our contemporary understanding of it. Included are carefully edited selections from the works of the most distinguished observers of marriage and the family, past and present, from Ernest W. Burgess and Margaret Mead to Lillian E. Troll, Richard J. Gelles, and Murray A. Straus.
