Can Marriage be Saved?

Abstract

A growing number of social scientists fear that marriage may be on the rocks and few doubt that matrimony, as we have known it, has undergone a wrenching period of change in the past several decades. Andrew Cherlin, a leading sociologist of the family, speaks of the de-institutionalization of marriage, conceding a point to conservative commentators who have argued that marriage and the family have been in a state of free-fall since the 1960s