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Marriage --- United States --- Family --- Families --- 316.356.2 <73> --- 316.356.2 <73> Gezinssociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Gezinssociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA

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Marriage --- #SBIB:316.356.2H1134 --- #SBIB:316.356.2H2222 --- 316.356.2 <73> --- 316.356.2 <73> Gezinssociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Gezinssociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Hedendaagse gezinsstudies: Noord-Amerika --- Gezinssociologie: man-vrouw relaties

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"Fragile families"-unmarried parents who struggle emotionally and financially-are one of the primary targets of the Healthy Marriage Initiative, a federal policy that has funded marriage education programs in nearly every state. These programs, which encourage marriage by teaching relationship skills, are predicated on the hope that married couples can provide a more emotionally and financially stable home for their children. Healthy marriage policy promotes a pro-marriage culture in which two-parent married families are considered the healthiest. It also assumes that marriage can be a socioeconomic survival mechanism for low-income families, and an engine of upward mobility. Through interviews with couples and her own observations and participation in marriage education courses, Jennifer M. Randles challenges these assumptions and critically examines the effects of such classes on participants. She takes the reader inside healthy marriage classrooms to reveal how their curricula are reflections of broader issues of culture, gender, governance, and social inequality. In analyzing the implementation of healthy marriage policy, Randles questions whether it should target individual behavior or the social and economic context of that behavior. The most valuable approach, she concludes, will not be grounded in notions of middle-class marriage culture. Instead, it will reflect the fundamental premise that love and commitment thrive most within the context of social and economic opportunity.

Family life education --- Marriage --- Family policy --- Poor families --- Equality --- 316.356.2 <73> --- Families --- 316.356.2 <73> Gezinssociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Gezinssociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Services for

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About the Contributors. Transciption Conventions. 1. Introduction: Family Talk, Shari Kendall. Part 1: Interactional Dynamics: Power and Solidarity. 2. Power Maneuvers and Connection Maneuvers in Family Interaction, Deborah Tannen. 3. Talking the Dog: Framing Pets as Interactional Resources in Family Discourse, Deborah Tannen. 4. "I Feel Just Horribly Embarrassed When She Does That": Constituting a Mother's Identity, Cyntha Gordon. 5. Finding the Right Balance between Connection and Control: A Father's Identity Construction in Conversations with His College-Age Daughter, Diana Marino

Communication in families --- Discourse analysis --- Pragmatics --- English language --- Mass communications --- United States --- Communication in the family --- -Discourse analysis --- -316.356.2 <73> --- 316.356.2 <73> Gezinssociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Gezinssociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Family communication --- Families --- 316.356.2 <73> --- United States of America

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Family policy --- Family policy. --- 316.356.2 <73> --- #SBIB:316.356.2H5500 --- Gezinssociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Gezinsbeleid: algemeen --- 316.356.2 <73> Gezinssociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Families --- Families and state --- State and families --- Public welfare --- Social security --- Social policy --- Government policy --- Family policy - United States.