Encyclopedia of marriage and the family
By: David Levinson, editor in chief.
Contributors: Levinson, David, 1947-
Publisher: Macmillan Library Reference USA; Simon & Schuster and Prentice Hall International
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover [2 volumes]
Number of pages: 791
Subjects: Marriage -- Encyclopedias; Family -- Encyclopedias
Description: Provides a compendium of knowledge about marriage, family and human relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: LIST OF ENTRIES:; title: Abortion: medical and social aspects --  Abortion: legal aspects -- Adolescence -- Adolescent sexuality -- Adoption -- AIDS -- Alimony and spousal support -- Annulment -- Attachment -- Attractiveness -- Attribution in relationships -- Bankruptcy -- Birth control: sociocultural and historical aspects -- Birth control: contraceptive methods -- Birth control: legal aspects -- Celibacy -- Child abuse and neglect: sociological aspects -- Child abuse and neglect: emotional and psychological aspects -- Child abuse and neglect: legal aspects -- Child care -- Child custody -- Childhood -- Children’s rights -- Child support -- Chronic illness -- Codependency -- Cohabitation -- Commitment -- Communes -- Communication -- Conception: medical aspects -- Conception: legal aspects -- Conflict -- Death and mourning -- Decision Making and Problem Solving -- Demography -- Disabilities -- Discipline -- Division of labor -- Divorce: legal aspects -- Divorce: economic aspects -- Divorce: emotional and social aspects -- Divorce: effects on children -- Dual-earner families -- Dysfunctional family -- Eating disorders -- Elder abuse -- Elders -- Entitlements -- Equity and close relationships -- Ethnicity -- Exchange theory -- Extended family -- Extramarital sex -- Family development theory -- Family gender roles -- Family law -- Family life education -- Family planning -- Family policy -- Family rituals -- Family stories and myths -- Family systems theory -- Family theory -- Family therapy -- Family values -- Family violence -- Fathers -- Fictive kinship -- Filial responsibility -- Foster parenting -- Friendship -- Gangs -- Gay and lesbian parents -- Gender -- Gender identity -- Genealogy -- Genetic counseling -- Grandparenthood -- Guardianship -- Health and the family -- History of the family -- Homeless families -- Home schooling – Housing -- Incest -- Incest taboo -- Infanticide -- Infertility -- Inheritance -- In-law relationships -- Intergenerational relations -- Intermarriage -- Intimacy -- Jealousy -- Juvenile delinquency  -- Kinship -- Later-life families -- Loneliness -- Love -- Marital power -- Marital property and community property -- Marital quality -- Marital sex -- Marital typologies -- Marriage ceremonies -- Marriage counseling -- Marriage definition -- Mass media -- Mate selection -- Measures of family characteristics -- Menopause -- Middle age -- Military families -- Missing children -- Mothers -- Naming -- Nonmarital pregnancy -- Nuclear family -- Only child -- Parent education -- Peer pressure -- Personality development -- Personal relationships -- Play -- Polyandry -- Polygyny -- Poverty -- Pregnancy and birth -- Premarital agreements -- Privacy and confidentiality -- Psychiatric disorders -- Rape -- Religion -- Remarriage -- Remarriage and children -- Research methods -- Resource management -- Retirement -- Runaway children  -- School -- Self-disclosure -- Self-esteem -- Self-help groups -- Sexuality -- Sexuality education -- Sexuality in the life cycle -- Sexually transmitted diseases -- Sexual orientation -- Sexual problems -- Shyness -- Sibling relationships -- Single parents -- Singles -- Social networks -- Spouse abuse and neglect -- Stepparenting -- Stress -- Substance abuse -- Substitute caregivers -- Suicide -- Symbolic interactionism -- Teenage parenting -- Truancy -- Trust -- Unemployment -- Utopian communities -- Widowhood -- Work and family.