Volume 44, Number 19 · December 4, 1997

The War Over the Family

By Andrew Hacker
The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work
by Arlie Russell Hochschild

Metropolitan Books, 316 pp., $22.50

The Divorce Culture
by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

Knopf, 224 pp., $24.00

The Assault on Parenthood: How Our Culture Undermines the Family
by Dana Mack

Simon and Schuster, 368 pp., $25.00

The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America's Changing Families
by Stephanie Coontz

Basic Books, 238 pp., $23.00

Kids These Days: What Americans Really Think about the Next Generations
by Steve Farkas, by Jean Johnson, with Ann Duffett, by Ali Bers

Public Agenda, 50 pp., $10.00 (paper)

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