For Better and Worse - The Problematic Past and Uncertain Future of Marriage

Twenty years ago, Stephanie Coontz asked of traditional marriage, “What tradition?” Now she returns to examine its contemporary state--what threatens its prevalence and what freedoms it can create for all people. Ninety percent of the world’s people live in countries where marriage rates have plummeted since the 1980s, with the Western world experiencing especially steep drops.;Almost everywhere, marriage has declined most among men and women with the lowest levels of education or earnings. And highly-educated and high-earning women are actually -- and typically postpone doing so until later in life. Still, rather than devaluing marriage, people all around the world overwhelmingly describe it as the highest expression of commitment they can imagine. And most people say they eventually In her new book,

Product details

• Authors: Stephanie Coontz
• Publisher: Viking USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 10.02.2026
• EAN: 9780593299098
• ISBN: 978-0-593-29909-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories