Holtman chuckles at the title. But after more than six decades dealing with family issues, she remains very serious about women's roles and the health of the family. Holtman worked in business, academia and social work before she went into the childcare and family consulting business in West Lafayette, Ind., at age 62. You can't change people. You have to start from where they are.
People have to change themselves.
People now are graduating from college with coursework that leads to jobs, not to being prepared with skills to start a marriage or to manage a family and children. The family is under unreal pressures now, but in some ways the family has always been on the brink. One hundred years ago as many marriages ended in death as they do now in divorce. Divorce rates in the United States stabilized 20 years ago, albeit at a high rate. Women have been entering the work force at a steadily increasing rate over the last century.