The conventional structure of the family is changing. Scanzoni develops a new model of the family, one that avoids sexual inequality and pays increased attention to the needs of individual family members, particularly children. Above all, it is dynamic, changing as society changes. Scanzoni reviews the history of the conventional family, the responses to current changes, the benefits of his new model, and the problems of establishing it as a living alternative.`While this is a book to be read by anyone interested in the future of the family, it will be particularly helpful for those who are teaching about the family, doing family research, or engaged in setting up a better environment for the family.′ -- Family Relations, April 1984
`...this book is absorbing and illuminating for anyone working with families or marital breakdown.′ -- Crucible, July/September 1984
- ISBN10 0803919204
- ISBN13 9780803919204
- Publish Date 25 March 1983
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 February 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint SAGE Publications Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 271
- Language English