Marital mythology: why the new crisis in marriage isn't.(Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage)(Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage)(Book review)

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Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage, by Stephanie Coontz, New York: Viking, 432 pages, $29.95

Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage, by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas, Berkeley: University of California Press, 293 pages, $24.95

THE END, AS USUAL, is nigh. "Barring a miracle," Focus on the Family founder James Dobson writes in the April 2004 edition of his group's newsletter, "the family as it has been known for more than five millennia will crumble, presaging the fall of Western civilization ...

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