Finally singlehood earns more than a couple of paragraphs

[destabee]

I am reviewing books for my summer Social Psych of Marriage and Family class (don't laugh that I teach such a class) and I am impressed by the fact that Singles get an entire chapter in a book by DeGenova. The book isn't perfect by a long shot -- for example mention of chosen/intentional families. My biggest complaint is that this like most sociology books on marriage and family feel compelled to include and entire chapter on family planning and 2/3 of a chapter devoted to the biological details of pregnancy and birth. I don't understand why. It would be far more sociological to discuss the medicalization of childbirth or a chapter on intentional families, or the social debates regarding contraception, sex education, and/or abortion.