Marriage & Family

Eli J. Finkel's insightful and ground-breaking investigation of marriage clearly shows that the best marriages today are better than the best marriages of earlier eras....

Polyamorous psychotherapist Jessica Fern breaks new ground by extending attachment theory into the realm of consensual nonmonogamy. Using her nested model of attachment and trauma, she expands our understanding of how emotional experiences can influence our relationships....

Navigating the challenges of long-term commitment takes effort - and it just got simpler, with this empowering, step-by-step guide to communicating about the things that matter most to you and your partner....

One hundred and ten years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of how they naturally learn....

From the author of Future Shock comes a striking way out of today's despair...a bracing, optimistic look at our new potentials....

When first published in 2001, it divided female critics and readers....

The pain of abandonment, both real and metaphorical, can cast a shadow over our entire adult experience....

American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are responding. They're dropping out of college, leaving the workforce, and avoiding marriage....

Can you love more than one person? Can you have multiple romantic partners without jealousy or cheating? Absolutely! Polyamorous people have been paving the way through trial and painful error. Now the new book More Than Two can help you find your own way....

If you’re looking to get married and you’re not, there’s most likely a very good reason: you. Not that you’re a bad person - you’re certainly not! It’s just that you haven’t yet become the woman you need to be....

As a childfree woman, Dr. Amy Blackstone is no stranger to a wide range of negative responses when she informs people she doesn't have - nor does she want - kids: confused looks, patronizing quips, thinly veiled pity, even outright scorn and condemnation....

Women who opt not to be mothers are frequently warned that they will regret their decision later in life, yet we rarely talk about the possibility that the opposite might also be true - that women who have children might regret it. Drawing on years of research....

Psychologists often paint a picture of human mating as visceral, instinctual. But that's not the whole story....

Happy Singlehood charts a way forward for singles to live life on their terms, and shows how everyone - single or coupled - can benefit from accepting solo living....

In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes listeners from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian lovers....

Forced by her father to marry a man three times her age, young Nujood Ali was sent away from her parents and beloved sisters....

Mona Charen unpacks the ways feminism fails us at home, in the workplace, and in our personal relationships - by promising that we can have it all, do it all, and be it all. She upends the feminist agenda and the liberal conversation surrounding women's issues by asking tough questions....

Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children....

Overwhelmed is a map of the stresses that have ripped our leisure to shreds, and a look at how to put the pieces back together....

Shows what real love actually looks like, how to learn the essentials for finding it, and how to make it last a lifetime....

An encouraging guide to helping parents find more happiness in their day-to-day family life, from the former lead editor of the New York Times' Motherlode blog....

Parents everywhere want their children to do well. Yet how parents seek to achieve this varies enormously. Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti reveal that in countries with increasing economic inequality, parents push harder to ensure their children have a path to success.... 

In this book, you will find pragmatic ways to handle feelings of jealousy when they arise. You'll learn tools for identifying jealousy, strategies for decoding what it means, and hands-on advice for dealing with it before it undermines your relationship....  

There are, in the United States, a significant and growing number of families who live on less than $2.00 per person, per day....

If you loved Dave Barry's Greatest Hits, you'll love hearing him explain...