About the Authors

Mary K. DeGenova
Mary Kay DeGenova received her Ph.D. in 1992 from Purdue University in Child Development and Family Studies. She was an Associate Professor of Family Studies at Central Michigan University and the University of New Hampshire. She has taught various courses on marriage and the family for ten years, and has taught an introductory course to marriage and the family numerous times. Her work on this text is a direct result of her experiences in the classroom and her own experiences with diversity including being a Peace Corps Volunteer in West Africa and a Fulbright Scholar in Chile. In addition to her recent work on this text she has a previous text with Mayfield Publishing Company entitled Families in Cultural Context: Strengths and Challenges in Diversity. She has written numerous journal articles, presented papers at many conferences and appeared in anthologies. She has also received many honors and awards including the Excellence in Teaching Award, Purdue University Summer Research Fellow, Fulbright-Hays Seminar Abroad Scholarship and many others. She is a member of the National Council on Family Relations, Groves Conference on Marriage and the Family, and the American Association of University Women. She is currently working from home on numerous writing projects while caring for her two children.

F. Philip Rice
F. Philip Rice received his Ed.D in Marriage and Family Relationships from Teachers College of Columbia University. He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Maine-Orono where he had taught courses in the field of Marriage and Family for many years. His years of experience teaching courses on Marriage and the Family, Human Sexuality, Contemporary Marriage, Human Development, and many others come through in this text. In addition to writing Intimate Relationships, Marriages and Families he has written more than twenty other texts on Marriage and Family, Stepparenting, Working Mothers, Human Sexuality, Human Development and numerous others in related fields. His principal areas of research include Human Development, Child Development, Adolescent Development, Adult Development and Marriage and Family Relations.