October 26, 2007

A Glance at the Fall Issue of Greater Good: The New American Family

By Jason M. Breslow

Marriage and family life have "changed more in the last 30 years than in the previous 3,000," writes Stephanie Coontz, who teaches history and family studies at Evergreen State College. With change comes new challenges to overcome, but, she writes, "we cannot do so if we delude ourselves into thinking there has ever been a Golden Age when life was much better for all, or even most, families."

Society tends to "romanticize marriages of the past," writes Ms. Coontz, but "for

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