With this ring : divorce, intimacy, and cohabitation from a multicultural perspective / edited by R. Robin Miller and Sandra Lee Browning.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Law, Divorce, and Marriage -- PartI. Introduction A Thirty-Year Perspective on Hindu Marriage and the Law: Cultural Confirmation of Change / Helen E. Ullrich -- Dual Ideological Structure of the Korean Family Law / Jae Kyung Lee -- Divorce among the Temne of Sierra Leone (West Africa): Alleged Causes, Effects of Polygyny, and Timing / V.R. Dorjahn -- Divorce in Japan: Historical Changes and Current Issues / Noriko Iwai -- Changes in Greek Marriage and Divorce Law: The Impact of the Family Law Reform of 1983 / Aspasia Tsaoussis-Hatzis -- Part II. Intimate Relationships in Marriage -- Part II. Introduction Sexuality among Older Couples: Perceptions of Spouse and Self / Barbara H. Vinick -- Marital Perceptions in Retrospect: A Study of Older Widows and Widowers / Kate Davidson -- Social Patterns in Intimacy and Support: European Americans and Chinese Americans / Deborah Woo.

Ain't It a Crime: Black Women's Perceptions of Intimacy with Black Men Inolved in Crime / Sandra Lee Browning and R. Robin Miller -- Familial Values, Gender Politics, and Meanings of Infidelity: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Extramarital Affairs / Jui-shan Chang -- Part III. Cohabitation and Alternative Marital Forms -- Part III. Introduction Nuptiality in Latin America: The View of A Sociologist and Family Demographer / Susan De Vos -- Marriage and Abortion in Japan: Adaptation and Alternative Strategies / Lawrence K. Hong -- Attitudes Toward Premarital Sex, Non-Marital Childbearing, Cohabitation and Marriage among Blacks and Whites / Wendy Y. Carter -- Marriages, Informal Unions, and Gender Ideologies in Revolutionary Rural Nicaragua / Suzanne M. Baker -- Cohabitation, Non-Marital Births, and Traditionalism: Marriages in Rural Siberia from a Life Cycle Perspective / Anna Mikheyeva.