The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today

“A landmark new book.” –Time “Intriguing… . Provocative… . Cherlin has come up with an original thesis [to explain] this peculiar paradox–we idealize marriage and yet we’re so bad at it.” –The New York Times

“A masterful comparative analysis… . Cherlin argues that Americans have a distinctive pattern … which stems from our simultaneous commitments to marriage and to self-expression and personal growth.” –The American Prospect

“Cherlin is one of America’s leading experts on the family… . His book delivers a stern warning to this fast-paced conjugal culture: ‘Slow down–watch out for the children.’” –Commonweal

Andrew J. Cherlin is Benjamin H. Griswold III Professor of Public Policy and Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. He received a B.S. from Yale University in 1970 and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1976. He is the author of the McGraw-Hill textbook, Public and Private Families: An Introduction. His other books include Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage (revised and enlarged edition, 1992), Divided Families: What Happens to Children when Parents Part (with Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., 1991), The Changing American Family and Public Policy (1988), and The New A

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