The divorce culture
Subtitle: rethinking our commitments to marriage and family
By: Barbara Dafoe Whitehead
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780679751687
Subjects: Social conditions; Divorce; Children; Family
Description: When historian and social critic Barbara Dafoe Whitehead first cast her eye on divorce--in an \"Atlantic Monthly\" article entitled \"Dan Quayle Was Right\"--she provoked a firestorm of media debate. Here, she has deepened and broadened her view of an American institution in a book of watershed importance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-214) and index.