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Carnoy, Martin. Sustaining the New Economy: Work, Family, and Community in the Information Age. Harvard University Press, 2000. Explores the growing tension between the need for a flexible workforce and the ability of parents and community to nurture their children.

Coontz, Stephanie; Maya Parson; and Gabrielle Raley, eds. American Families: A Multicultural Reader. Routledge, 1998. Testifies to the diversity of family life in the United States.

Hansen, Karen V., and Anita Ilta Garey, eds. Families in the U.S: Kinship and Domestic Politics. Temple University Press, 1998. Explores the relationship between families and social structure.

Hawes, Joseph M., and Elizabeth F. Shores. The Family in America: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO, 2001. Surveys the role and dynamics of the family throughout U.S. history.

Mack, Dana. The Assault on Parenthood: How Our Culture Undermines the Family. Simon & Schuster, 1997. Voices the concerns of parents in the United States who feel that the schools, courts, and welfare system are alienating them from their children and trying to subvert their role.

Stacey, Judith. Brave New Families: Stories of Domestic Upheaval in Late-Twentieth-Century America. University of California Press, 1991, 1998. The so-called nuclear family reconfigured on the basis of a study of families living in California's Silicon Valley; reveals changes in the concepts of family and individual roles within the family.

Stebbins, Leslie, and Harold V. Cordy. Work and Family in America: A Reference Handbook. ABC-CLIO, 2001. A helpful reference guide to the overlapping worlds of work and family.

Marriage

Beesley, Amanda, and Alice Van Straalen, ed. Something New: Reflections on the Beginnings of a Marriage. Knopf, 2001. A humorous yet thoughtful account of a bride's engagement, wedding, and first year of marriage.

Gelber, Carol. Love and Marriage Around the World. Millbrook, 1998. Shows some of the different lifestyles and daily circumstances of marriage-led households throughout the world; for younger readers.

Gottman, John M. Seven Principles to Making Marriage Work. Crown, 1999, 2000. Advice from a marriage researcher and relationship counselor.

Levinson, David, ed. Encyclopedia of Marriage and the Family. Macmillan, 1995. A comprehensive source that deals with topics either directly or marginally related to marriage and family; contains 169 entries, including bankruptcy, family values, homeless families, and mate selection.

Myers, Michael F., M.D. How's Your Marriage? A Book for Men and Women. American Psychiatric, 1998. This guide by an experienced marriage therapist can help couples improve their relationships.

Wallerstein, Judith S., and Sandra Blakeslee. The Good Marriage: How & Why Love Lasts. Warner, 1996. Study of 50 predominantly middle-class, northern California couples who had been married nine years or more and had at least one child. Examines why these marriages flourish.

Yalom, Marilyn. A History of the Wife. HarperCollins, 2001. Filled with lively anecdotes, a provocative study of women and marriage from biblical times to the present.

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