Excerpt from In-Laws, Pro Con: An Original Study of Inter-Personal Relations

My mother-in-law has left this earth;

I hope she will never return;

She must be up with the angels now;

For I know she's too tough to burn.

- A California daughter-in-law

People have been making jokes about their mothers-in-law ever since a caveman awoke one morning a million years ago to find his mother-in-law, dinosaur-skin suitcase and Brontosaurus-bone rolling pin in hand, glaring into the family cave.

But Dr. Evelyn Millis Duvall (a mother-in-law herself) thinks the old stereotype may soon be passe. She says that younger marriages, military service, and the premature empty-nest of early middle-aged parents-in-law may be bringing in-laws back into style.

In this unique, first-of-its-kind study of relationships by marriage. Dr. Duvall rakes a considered look at all in-laws, male and female, young and old. On the basis of several years' research involving thousands of individual and group interviews and content analysis of responses to a nationwide radio contest on mothers-in-law, she tells us what makes in-laws difficult, what people most like and dislike about their in-laws, and what there is besides common sense to help us understand and get along with our in-laws. She offers facts and findings, rather than guesses and generalities.

Crowded with case histories, illustrative charts, and quotes from thousands of in-laws, the book shows who is the worst in-law and why. It tells how in-laws affect courting couples and mixed marriages, what in-laws do to make trouble, ways in which in-law relationships can work out happily.

The final section of this popularly presented, provocative report applies the findings to your everyday existence with your own in-laws. It tells how to be a better relative by marriage no matter whether you're a father-, mother-, brother-, sister-, son-, or daughter-in-law.

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