This provocative quantity is created from mental, socioeconomic, and cultural views on couple dynamics, fairly gender dynamics, and the way forward for marriage. that includes information on married, cohabitating, male/female, and same-sex undefined, the authors of the book's chapters research the altering affects of labor, parenting, and the well-being advantages of marriage for women and men. Trajectories within the evolution towards gender equality give you the backdrop for discussions of girls and males as companions, mom and dad, and employees in modern society. participants additionally preserve a pointy concentrate on the complexities of gender concerns as they intersect with an important contexts of cohort, category, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation.

Among the subjects covered:

• Gender equality and fiscal inequality: affects on marriage.
• Expansionist idea improved: integrating sociological and mental views on gender, paintings, and kin change.
• Gender, paintings, and kin: motion within the interactions.
• Changes in U.S. moms' and fathers' time use: reasons and consequences.
• A case for homosexual fathers.
• Gender, marriage, and healthiness for same-sex and different-sex couples

Gender and Couple Relationships files social roles and social switch with interesting perception to increase learn in fields of psychology, sociology, demography and economics and to the good thing about paintings organisations, coverage makers, relatives and couple therapists and different psychological future health professionals.