This textbook is recommended as an attempt, successful despite certain limitations, to present to college students and some members of the public a consideration of dynamic personality formulations concerning marriage and family life in the United States.

After an introductory section on biological, psychological, and cultural orientation, Simpson discusses topics such as mating, marriage, children, control of size of family, dissolution and resolution of marriage, adoption, aging of parents, unmarried parents and their children, homosexuality, prostitution, and incest. The final