Sacrifice: A Clinical View

From: Family Process | Date: September 1, 2006| Author: Beels, C Christian; Newmark, Margaret | Copyright information

Fam Proc 45:305-309, 2006

In commenting on "Sacrifice as a Predictor of Marital Outcomes" (Stanley, Whitton, Sadberry, Clements, & Markman, 2006) from the viewpoint of clinicians, we are conscious of some of our limitations. First, we are White, over 70, heterosexual, prosperous and privileged, and in our only marriage, and most of the people in our present practices of couples therapy, though younger, are also from that waning but culturally influential minority group. The study s...

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