Choices in Relationships: An Introduction to Marriage and the Family

This text supports the goals of most professors: applies research and theory to the students' lives, encourages lively classroom discussion, and offers alternatives and choices. This is the best book to accomplish these goals. How? Interactive pedagogy (e.g. self assessments), currency of data, topics and topics, different teaching and learning appeals (text, illustrations, pedagogy), "Up Close"), writing style, and social policy issues within the context of the chapter. The authors show students how positive outcomes in personal relationships depend on making intelligent choices. The book helps students to explore the tradeoffs that choices involve, how to view situations in a positive light, and how not making a choice is really a choice. Students learn to approach every intimate relationship with the new freedom and new responsibility that choices involve.