Presents the results of a study conducted with two groups of teens, surveying the expectations and realities of marriage and cohabitation, comparing the answers of young people who are single with those of teenagers living with a partner.

Cover title: Expectations & reality.

Searching for love : but not for marriage -- Change happens : can we cope? -- Faith and ethnicity : must partners match? -- Traditional roles no longer the norm -- Jealousy : love's opponent -- Partner abuse : killer of love -- Your parents or mine? : living with in-laws -- On moving in : and dropping out -- Men who don't work : and women who do -- He's my baby, too : teen dads are involved -- Expectations and realities : helping teens learn to cope.