Authors: Stephen Baskerville
Publish Date: 2009/05/06
Volume: 46, Issue: 4, Pages: 380-382
Abstract
A society grappling with a declining birthrate proliferation of singleparent homes and government policies that undermine parents and families will find it sobering to learn that some were sounding the alarm decades ago even in the apparently familyfriendly postwar years and that the trends were developing long before that Even more disturbing is that the same ills plagued ancient civilizations—shortly before they collapsedA publishing event of major importance is the reissue of Family and Civilization by Harvard sociologist Carle Clark Zimmerman 1897–1983 Originally published in 1947 the book is a classic of family scholarship though as Allan Carlson explains in the introduction it has largely been ignored by the academic elite
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