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The Ties That Bind: Perspectives on Marriage and Cohabitation

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2001

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The book reviews scientific evidence on the causes of trends in marriage and other intimate unions. The authors investigate factors influencing the formation, timing, and types of marriages and other intimate unions, and explain recent dramatic changes in union formation. Edited by Linda J.

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Ties That Bindwas organized to review and assess the scientific evidence about the causes of trends in marriage and other forms of intimate unions. The contributors address these two questions: What do we know about the factors that influence the formation of marriages and other intimate unions, the timing of union formation, and the forms that unions take? What factors explain the dramatic changes in union formation we have observed over recent decades? Edited by Linda J. Waite. Co-edited by Christine Bachrach, Michelle Hindin, Elizabeth Thomson, and Arland Thornton.