Family, Society, and the Individual (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: William M. Kephart
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267157037
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 704

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Excerpt from Family, Society, and the Individual Fundamentally, of course, the family is everywhere recognized as the institution responsible for biological survival. In addition to its procreative role, the family is also the agency chiefly responsible for the child-rearing and child socialization processes. In civilized societies especially, the child-training function has come to have tremendous significance. Gone are the days when children should be seen but not heard; on the contrary, the importance of childhood and the effects of home life on personality and character formation have been widely recognized. In fact, as the basic' primary group the family probably has more to do with the child's ultimate behavioral pattern than does any other single environmental factor, and it is on this assumption that the broken home has come to be blamed for so many Of our delinquency problems. The family, through the husband - wife relationship, is also the recognized institution for the fulfillment of sexual needs. The sex urge is a powerful one, and most societies have set up rather elaborate safe guards to insure that sexuality is kept within bounds. In a very real sense, the family is man's answer to the sex problem. This is readily apparent in our own society where nearly all forms of sex expression other than marital coitus are considered morally wrong, punishable by both legal and religious actions. The family is also one of the chief agencies of sociability. This was not always so, and indeed in some societies it is not the case today. Yet over the years, wherever women have been accorded relatively equal social status, the husband-wife relationship has taken on added meaning in terms of sustained companionship, sociability, and other manifestations of primary-group activity. Again, this is especially applicable in our own society, where affection, companionship, shared activities, and general sociability are often the hallmarks of marital happiness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.