Unit4 The following text is extracted from Marriages and Families by Nijole V. Benokraitis. 下面的文章选自Nijole V. Benokraitis的婚姻与家庭。 The book has been used as a textbook for sociology courses and women’s studies in a number of universities in the United States. 此书在美国的一些大学里被用作社会学和妇女研究等课程的教材， It highlights important contemporary changes in society and the family and explores the choices that are available to family members, as well as the constraints that many of us do not recognize. 它强调了在当代社会和家庭中所发生的重要变化， 探索了家庭成员所面临的选择， 以及我们很多人都还未意识到的种种约束。 It examines the diversity of American families today, using cross-cultural and multicultural comparisons to encourage creative thinking about the many critical issues that confront the family of the twenty-first century. 该书还审视了当今美国家庭的多样性，运用跨文化和多元文化的比较，以激发创造性思维来研究21世纪家庭所面临的许多严峻问题。 LOVE AND LOVING RELATIONSHIPS Nijole V. Benokraitis 爱和情感连系 奈杰尔 •贝诺克瑞提斯 1 Lo