The Marriage Go Round

Why read it

• Explains why Americans prize marriage more than other Western nations yet marry, divorce and repartner faster
• Helps you see marriage and divorce as two cultural models pulling at once, shaped by class and jobs rather than by weak morals
• Combines history, law, interviews and cross country data, and ends in practical policy rather than nostalgia for the past

Who it is for

• Family policy makers weighing marriage promotion programs
• Counselors and social workers supporting families in transition
• Adults wondering why their own relationships feel so unsettled

What the summary covers

1. The American Marriage Contradiction2 min
2. Two Cultural Models in One Society2 min
3. How Marriage Became Both Strong and Breakable2 min
4. The Companionate Marriage2 min
5. From Togetherness to Self Development3 min
6. Marriage as a Prestigious Achievement2 min
7. Is American Restlessness the Cause?2 min
8. Blue Collar Insecurity, White Collar Stability5 min
9. Slow Down the Relationship Clock2 min

About the author

• 
  Andrew J. CherlinEmeritus professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University who studies family life

  • Born 9 September 1948
  • Yale undergraduate degree 1970; PhD in sociology from UCLA 1976
  • Joined Johns Hopkins as assistant professor in 1976
  • President of the Population Association of America in 1999
  • 2003 Distinguished Career Award, Family Section of the American Sociological Association
  • Guggenheim Fellow 2005; PAA Irene B. Taeuber Award 2009
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences and two other academies
  • Wrote the leading family sociology textbook Public and Private Families

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