Modern marriage and family living
By: edited by Morris Fishbein and Ruby Jo Reeves Kennedy, with the advice of Ernest W. Burgess and Charles H. Page. Introd. by Joseph Kirk Folsom.
Contributors: Kennedy, Ruby Jo Reeves, joint ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1957
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 545
Subjects: Marriage; Child rearing
Notes: Bibliography: p. 522.
"A revised and augmented version of Successful marriage edited by Morris Fishbein and Ernest W. Burgess."
Table of contents: title: Family life- an interdisciplinary study / Joseph K. Folsom; title: Education and family life / Muriel W. Brown; title: American culture and family life / John Sirjamaki; title: Marriage in middle-class families / Earl Lomon Koos; title: Race, religion, and nationality in mate selection / Milton L. Barron; title: Social psychological factors affecting fertility : the Indianapolis study / Charles F. Westoff; title: Sex and the social order / Georgene H. Seward; title: Divorce and its effects / Kingsley Davis; title: The wise choice of a mate / Ernest W. Burgess; title: The diagnosis of love / Henry A. Bowman; title: Courtship and engagement / Evelyn M. Duvall; title: Premarital sex relationships / Anna O. Stephens; title: Premarital physical examination / Morris Fishbein; title: The wedding and honeymoon / Ada Hart Arlitt; title: Anatomy and physiology of the sex organs / Robert L. Dickinson; title: Technique of marriage relations / G. Lombard Kelly; title: Sexual adjustment in marriage / O. Spurgeon English; title: Measuring and predicting marital success / Lewis M. Terman; title: Psychological factors in marital maladjustments / George J. Mohr; title: Women's conflicting values in relation to marriage adjustment / Emily Hartshorne Mudd; title: Working wives and mothers / Mirra Komarovsky; title: Home management and finance / Howard F. Bigelow; title: Extramarital relations / Lester W. Dearborn; title: The health ad hygiene of marriage / Thurman B. Rice; title: Heredity : facts and fallacies / Warren P. Spencer; title: Ovulation and fertility / M. Edward Davis; title: Preparing for a baby / Janet Fowler Nelson; title: Pregnancy / Edith L. Potter; title: The birth of the baby / J.P. Greenhill; title: Abortions / Alan F. Guttmacher; title: The physical growth of the child / Wilton M. Krogman; title: Child development / Elizabeth B. Hurlock; title: Adoption : some legal and social procedures / Lee M. Brooks and Evelyn C. Brooks; title: Remarriage and the stepchild / William Carlson Smith; title: Sex education and the child / Charles E. Manwiller; title: Masturbation / Lester W. Dearborn; title: Preparation for marriage in adolescence / Katharine Whiteside Taylor; title: The family council / James H.S. Bossard.