Family, the first imperative
Subtitle: a symposium in search of root causes of family strength and family disintegration
By: edited by William J. O'Neill, Jr.
Contributors: O'Neill, William J., 1933-
Publisher: William J. and Dorothy K. O'Neill Foundation
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cleveland, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Family -- United States -- Congresses; Family policy -- United States -- Congresses
Other titles: Symposium in search of root causes of family strength and family disintegration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Family disintegration and behavior disorders of youth; title: Successful stepfamilies; title: Family-friendly communities; title: The vanishing American father; title: Families, institutions, and the problem of social isolation; title: The dissolution of the American family; title: Stemming family disintegration; title: Putting families first; title: Poverty in the African-American community; title: Nobody's children or everybody's children; title: Low-income African-American families; title: Redesigning services using an assets approach; title: The individual within the family unit; title: Community virtues; title: Human service agencies and families; title: Redefining families; title: On the disintegration of social institutions; title: Rainforests, families, and communities; title: The deterioration of the modern family; title: The decline of marriage as the social basis of childbearing; title: Balancing family, work, and leisure; title: Families in the 1990s.