 |  Intimate Relationships, Marriages, and Families, 5/e Mary K. DeGenova
Philip F. Rice
Feature Summary- Focus on importance of family background and social experience. Throughout the text (particularly Chapter 3), the author shows how background and experience shape and direct personal values, roles, and attitudes about intimacy and relationships.
- Emphasis on diversity. The emphasis on diversity and understanding variations in lifestyles and family composition (a key theme in Chapter 2) is integrated throughout the text.
- A positive focus on the ways in which intimate relationships develop and prosper is central to the text. Key issues such as making dating a maturing experience, gender role learning, and alternatives to divorce are included. Chapter 10 is a unique chapter that discusses qualities of successful marriages.
- Thematic unity. Five themes unify the text: cognition, challenge, change, choice, and commitment.
- Exceptional Value. This is the most comprehensive text available, yet it costs $20 less than most other marriage and family texts.
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