Silton presents readers with a collection of academic essays and scholarly articles focused on the contemporary changes to family dynamics and romantic relationships across a broad spectrum of society. She has organized the seventeen selections that make up the main body of the text in four parts devoted to love, passion, and sexuality; LGBTQ relationships; cultural and ethnic dynamics; and attachment, dating, and family relationships. The editor is a faculty member of Marymount Manhattan College in New York. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)