Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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In Bronfenbrenner's view, meeting people?especially people of different ages?is all-important to the preservation of the family. Parents now spend their time with other parents, he suggests, children with children, the young with the young and the old with the old. To end this segregation, which is...
For all of the family's ills, the U.S. is still probably the most marriage-and-home oriented nation in the modern world. In the 1960s the number of U.S. families grew at a greater rate than the population; 87% of Americans live in families that include both parents. While...
A man's family used to be his fate; he could scarcely change it. In the modern U.S., people think easily of changing their family, like their occupation or their home. The result is psychologically unsettling and yet this change ability has obviously become a part of American life and...
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That vision will probably never replace the image?and the dream? of the snug, permanent hearth, even suitably expanded by "clusters." But it may be closer to the reality of American life.