Volume 24, Number 19 · November 24, 1977
The Siege of the Family
By Christopher Lasch
All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure
by Kenneth Keniston. the Carnegie Council on Children
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 255 pp., $10.95
The plight of the family, so long a professional preoccupation of social scientists and social pathologists, now commands anxious attention among legislators and government bureaucrats. Everyone talks about the need for a 'family policy.' President Carter has repeatedly stressed the importance of holding the family together, and a growing number of agencies—the Senate Subcommittee on Children and Youth, the Select Committee on Education of the House of Representatives, the HEW Office of Human Development, among others—devote at least part of their time to problems of the family.
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