THE HOUSING OF THE UNSKILLED WAGE EARNER. By Edith Elmer Wood. New York, The Macmillan Company

1920 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 450-451
Author(s):  
FRANK Backus WILLIAMS.
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Wage Earner

Understanding Your Child From Birth To Three: A Guide To Your Child's Psychological Development, by Joseph Church. New York: Random House, 1973, 267 pp., $6.95

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 765-766
Author(s):  
Mary Howell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Young People ◽  
Maximum Stress ◽  
Family System ◽  
Psychological Development ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Wage Earner ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Social Science Literature ◽  
To Come

More than 60% of the marriages contracted in the current year are expected to come to divorce or separation. Not only marriage but also parenthood is in a state of uncertainty; many young people are looking at the families they have known and wondering if the rewards of being parents outweigh the distress they believe they see. There is a growing body of social science literature that points to the isolated mother-father-child family–expecting to meet all of their needs behind the closed doors of their homes, and with responsibilities sharply divided between wage earner and housekeeper–as a family system that puts maximum stress on minimum strength.

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