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“haley swenson”

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  • For Better and Worse

    The Complicated Past and Challenging Future of Marriage

    by Stephanie Coontz, Haley Swenson ...
    A provocative, authoritative reckoning with the past and future of marriage, explaining why it’s become more rewarding as well as riskierMarriage rates have fallen dramatically since the 1970s. Yet far from devaluing marriage, people still overwhelmingly describe marriage as the highest commitment they can imagine. Most Americans say they want to marry eventually, and couples who do marry have a ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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    For Better and Worse

    The Complicated Past and Challenging Future of Marriage

    by Stephanie Coontz, Haley Swenson ...
    Narrated by Cynthia Farrell ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 6 min

    A provocative, authoritative reckoning with the past and future of marriage, explaining why it’s become more rewarding as well as riskierMarriage rates have fallen dramatically since the 1970s. Yet far from devaluing marriage, people still overwhelmingly describe marriage as the highest commitment they can imagine. Most Americans say they want to marry eventually, and couples who do marry have a ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

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  • Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated

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  • The Way We Never Were

    American Families and the Nostalgia Trap

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    **The classic, myth-shattering history of the American family.“The Way We Never Were effectively demolishes the normal, traditional nuclear family as neither normal nor traditional, and not even nuclear.” ―Nation**Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man’s home has never been his castle, the “male breadwinner marriage” is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault ... Read more

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  • The End of Race Politics

    Arguments for a Colorblind America

    by Coleman Hughes ...
    An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning that the so-called ‘anti-racist’ movement is driving us—ironically—toward a new kind of racism.As one of the few black students in his philosophy program at Columbia University years ago, Coleman Hughes wondered why his peers seemed more pessimistic about the state of American race relations than his ... Read more

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  • Is Marriage for White People?

    How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone

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    A distinguished Stanford law professor examines the steep decline in marriage rates among the African American middle class, and offers a paradoxical-nearly incendiary-solution.Black women are three times as likely as white women to never marry.That sobering statistic reflects a broader reality: African Americans are the most unmarried people in our nation, and contrary to public perception the ... Read more

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  • The Marriage-Go-Round

    The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today

    by Andrew J. Cherlin ...
    In a landmark book that's "intriguing [and] provocative" and presents "an original thesis [to explain] this peculiar paradox—we idealize marriage and yet we’re so bad at it” (The New York Times).Andrew J. Cherlin's three decades of study have shown him that marriage in America is a social and political battlefield in a way that it isn’t in other developed countries. Americans marry and divorce ... Read more

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  • The Conversation

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    by Robert Livingston ...
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    Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization

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  • Rich, Free, and Miserable

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