What is marriage really like in America today? How do husbands and wives really get along with each other? Who makes the important family decisions, and in what kinds of marriage do husbands assume most household tasks? Complementing the many studies in this field that analyze the martial habits of American men and women. Husbands and Wives covers a great deal more than the sexual aspects of marriage. It is one of the first books to describe a cross-section sample of an entire community (metropolitan Detroit) and to provide comparative data on the effects of educations social status, religion, age difference on American marriages.