Successful marriage / edited by Morris Fishbein and Justin M. Fishbein

This book is developed in various parts devoted to specific phases of the whole problem. Both logically and chronologically it begins with a statement concerning the profession of marriage counseling. Next come the questions that arise related to falling in love, choosing a mate, and marriage. The book then considers the sexual problems of marriage and describes the anatomical and functional considerations, also the neces sary premarital examinations-both physical and psychological. Another section concerns disturbances of married life, then conception, pregnancy, and childbirth. A fourth part is concerned with the child in the family, and the fifth portion with the many social problems that disturb marriage from many points of view. While material on certain phases of marriage is presented objectively, the moral aspects are also important.

The volume is not intended as propaganda in behalf of any objective other than successful marriage. At least one third of marriages now con tracted are not successful. The percentage is too great for continued maintenance of the family as the center of life and living; maintenance of the family is basic to continuation of democracy in our government. Modern developments in contraception and new points of view in social life, sex relationships, and economic aspects of marriage made this new edition necessary.