Volume 26, Number 7 · May 3, 1979
Divorce à la Mode
By Andrew Hacker
Husbands and Wives: A Nation-wide Survey of Marriage
by Anthony Pietropinto, by Jacqueline Simenauer
Times Books, 408 pp., $12.50
The Extra-Sex Factor: Why Over Half of America's Married Men Play Around
by Lewis Yablonsky
Times Books, 239 pp., $9.95
Current Population Reports: Series P-20 Bureau of the Census United States
No.297: Number, Timing and Duration of Marriages and Divorces in the
USGPO, 34 pp., $.95
Current Population Reports: Series P-20 Bureau of the Census Characteristics
No.312: Marriage, Divorce, Widowhood and Remarriage by Family
USGPO, 39 pp., $1.05
Current Population Reports: Series P-20 Bureau of the Census
No.323: Marital Status and Living Arrangements
USGPO, 60 pp., $2.30
Marriage is one way to house and rear a population. It also works as an effective constraint: turning people into husbands and wives makes them more dependable, largely by limiting their choices. For these reasons alone, marriages are supposed to endure.
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