Marriage is in trouble. Labled as old-fashioned, outdated, and irrelevant, marriage is being abandoned for divorce, living together, single parenting, and sexual freedom. Lasting marriage, which used to be esteemed as the building block of society, are disappearing at an alarming rate. Drawing from one hundred years of social science research, Stanton examines the state of marriage in American today and gives readers solid reasons for belief in marriage in a post-modern culture.