Designing Families: The Search for Self and Community in the Information AgeDesigning Families is a thought-provoking examination of the challenges facing the nuclear family as it enters the new millenium. John Scanzoni sets the issue of change in families in aN historical and cross-cultural perspective tracing the development of the family from the Agricultural Age to the Information Age. |
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New FamiliesNew Ideas | 1 |
The 1950s to the Present | 39 |
Cohousing as Family Reform | 73 |
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