Organization of Social Forces to Promote Family Stability

teenth century, families were expected to be self-sufficient, to fend for themselves, to answer their own questions, and to meet their own needs, at the same time that they baked their own bread, churned their own butter, and cobbled their own shoes. Occasionally a Mrs. March bundled up her breakfast along with her little women to ease the strains upon less fortunate families in the neighborhood. But the lady bountiful efforts, although well-meaning, were often sporadic, superficial, and inadequate to stabilize a tottering family. The twentieth century has seen the development of organized efforts to mobilize resources for the meeting of common family problems. Recent decades have been noted for the organization of social forces for the positive promotion of family stability through a myriad of efforts difficult to catalogue. A partial listing of some of the more obvious of these organized social resources would include: (1) family service; (2) security programs for family members; (3) health aids for families; (4) mental hygiene facilities; (5) marriage and family counseling; (6) family interests in organized religion; (7) homemaking skills and home-management aids; (8) housing developments; (9) parent education; (10) youth education for marriage and family living

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