num_pages: 243
description: Psychology/sociologyBecoming Partners is a popularly written book about marriage and its alternatives. Using interviews in the partner's own words the author gives the reader a series of slices pictures perceptions  of relationships breakdowns restructurings  in a wide variety of partnerships. These are followed by his own incisive commentary and summation. The interviews span a variety of relationships among others the author's own marriage convention long-lived and successful; commune group marriags; a triangle; a quartet; a racially mixed marriage. And at no time does Dr. Rogers attempt to pass judgment on whether the unions are good or bad: they simply exist and that is enough. (back cover text)
language: English
title: Becoming Partners: Marriage and Its Alternatives
publisher: Dell Publishing Co.