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Can Marriage Be Saved?
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 52, Number 3, Summer 2005 (whole No. 220)
- pp. 76-80
- 10.1353/dss.2005.0081
- Article
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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.