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The Marriagegoround: The State Of Marriage And The Family In America Today,New
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In A Landmark Book That'S 'Intriguing [And] Provocative' And Presents 'An Original Thesis [To Explain] This Peculiar Paradoxwe Idealize Marriage And Yet Were So Bad At It (The New York Times).Andrew J. Cherlin'S Three Decades Of Study Have Shown Him That Marriage In America Is A Social And Political Battlefield In A Way That It Isnt In Other Developed Countries. Americans Marry And Divorce More Often And Have More Livein Partners Than Europeans, And Gay Americans Have More Interest In Legalizing Samesex Marriage. The Difference Comes From Americans Embrace Of Two Contradictory Cultural Ideals: Marriage, A Formal Commitment To Share One'S Life With Another; And Individualism, Which Emphasizes Personal Choice And Selfdevelopment. Religion And Law In America Reinforce Both Of These Behavioral Poles, Fueling Turmoil In Our Family Life And Heated Debate In Our Public Life. Cherlins Incisive Diagnosis Is An Important Contribution To The Debate And Points The Way To Slowing Down The Partnership Merrygoround.
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