marriage

In Massachusetts, eighteen-year-old Lyn, who has grown up in the public eye as the daughter of seven gladiators, wants nothing less than to follow her mother's path, but her only way of avoiding marriage to the warrior who killed her last stepfather may be to face him in the arena.

Presents the results of a study conducted with two groups of teens, surveying the expectations and realities of marriage and cohabitation, comparing the answers of young people who are single with those of teenagers living with a partner.

A collection of articles offering opinions for and against such issues as premarital sex, marriage counseling, the effects of divorce, and joint child custody.

Surveys customs and rituals of different cultures, and places them in their proper context, within the groups whose traditions have evolved for survival at a particular place and time.

Hoover's house is overrun with dust until he marries a vacuum cleaner, but he soon discovers that humans and appliances are not meant to wed.

Best friends Mary Anne and Dawn are ecstatic to discover that Dawn's mother and Mary Anne's father are planning to get married.

Describes a party gathered at a house in England. In later years only caretakers have the house, and in the last part of the story the house is again filled with surviving family members.

When young Rosamond marries to escape her reclusive life with her grandfather, she discovers the truth about her husband's dark past and flees their home.

A portrayal of New York society in the 1870s where money counted for less than manners and morals.