Welcome to the Marriage and Family Room...created as a location for sites pertinent to my Marriage and Family classes at Lane Community College. Not all links placed in here are ones I would support, but they're here to give exposure to many points of view. The link directly below sets the tone for this Room...take a look and then enjoy the Featured Sites provided...Thanks.
Harry Overstreet...from THE MATURE MIND... about the Family
*****An Invitation from TSS*****
MENU OF FEATURED SITES
Abuse
Against Marriage
Androgyny
Christian Sites
Cohabitation
Divorce
Gender
General M/F Sites
History/Current Perspectives
Jealousy and Conflict
Love/Relationships
Parenting
Right to Marry
Sexuality
Singlehood
Wedding Ceremonies
The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens
Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma
SEXUAL ABUSE OF MALES: PREVALENCE, POSSIBLE LASTING EFFECTS, AND RESOURCES
The Battered Husband Controversy
Selective and dubious interpretationss by Kate Orman...check it out for yourself
Psychological Abuse: Implications for Adjustment & Commitment to Leave Violent Partners
Researcher Documents Psychological Casualties of Abuse
Intimate/Domestic Violence Resources
AGAINST MARRIAGE
Alternatives to Marriage Project (ATMP)
Marriage and Love...by Emma Goldman
ANDROGYNY
Androgyny As an Ideal for Human Development
Androgyny and Gender Dialectics (Article and Links)
Bem Androgyny Test
CHRISTIAN SITES
Christian Marriage & Family Home Page
COHABITATION
Alternatives to Marriage Project: Cohabitation
DIVORCE
Divorce Source: The Divorce Research Center
GENDER
Thirty years after the discovery of gender: psychological concepts and measures of masculinity
Twenty Statements Test (TST) and Guidelines
I Want a Wife
Serious Satire about gender roles
X: A Fabulous Child's Story
GENERAL M/F SITES/TOPICS
Council on Contemporary Families
EIGHT TYPES OF MARRIAGES AND FAMILIES IN THE BIBLE, AS COMPARED TO TODAY'S PRACTICES
Kearl's Guide to Sociology of Family
Marriage and Family Statistics
HISTORY/CURRENT PERSPECTIVES
Marriage, Poverty, and Public Policy
by Stephanie Coontz and Nancy Folbre
Interview with Stephanie Coontz
The American Family
An Essay by Stephanie Coontz
The Way We Really Are
Chapter by Chapter Abstract of book by Stephanie Coontz
The Way We Weren't
by Stephanie Coontz
Short article overviewing her book of the same name
Nostalgia as Ideology
By Stephanie Coontz
JEALOUSY AND CONFLICT
15 Suggestions for Constructive Conflict
Jealousy: A Typology and Essay
by David H. Kessel
Jealousy: Causes and a Possible Cure...by Emma Goldman
The benefits of jealousy
By Serge Kreutz
Strange brew of ideas!!
Jealousy Test
LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS
Close Relationships and Personality Research
Marx, Fromm, and Overstreet...on Love
PARENTING
National Center for Men's Voluntary Fatherhood Project
Single & Custodial Fathers Network, Inc.
The Child and its Enemies...by Emma Goldman
Am I Parenting Material?
Great questionaire for people to consider their parenting aptitude
Gay Marriage Central
SEXUALITY
Hite Research International Homepage
Harry Overstreet...on Sexuality
Insightful observations from The Mature Mind
Self-Questions Concerning Sexuality
Letter writer questions definitions of Promiscuous Sex and re-examines love
Does Sex Education Work?
SINGLEHOOD
How Compatible are You?
A questionnaire for those considering marriage while dating/courting
Reasons To Marry and Not To Marry
A short survey about Women, Men, and You
The Singles Cafe
WEDDING CEREMONIES
Marriage Ceremony in Japan
Harry Overstreet from THE MATURE MIND (Guess the year he wrote this)
"Thus, many things have happened to the home since machinery entered the world. For the most part,
these things have not been clearly recognized by the individuals involved. The average adult, even the
average parent, takes the home for granted as if it had come in its present form straight from the workshop
of the Creator. Any suggestion that many things need to be changed, particularly in the economic order
that has been so largely responsible for the altered and insecure modern home, either leaves him
unconvinced or rouses him to anger against "radicalism." This is in itself a sign of adult immaturity.
The very institution the adult most cares about is one about which he knows so little...and thinks so
little, in any deep sense...that he has allowed it to become an institution secondary in power and at the
mercy of forces that he considers it un-american to try to change.
It is quite possible that most of what has happened to the home is still beyond our individual power
to correct. But maturity of mind would seem to require at least some intelligent awareness of the
situation. The home is not the perfect institution that immature sentimentality makes it out to be. It is,
today, full of serious dangers to the psychological health of both its individual members and our
total culture. A readiness to see these dangers is called for...and an awareness of their character.
The mature adult will regard the modern home as something to be deeply anxious about. Also,
he will regard it as something to be cherished...and changed."
