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The Shaking of the Foundations - Family and Society (Hardcover)
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The Shaking of the Foundations - Family and Society (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Marriage
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Originally published in 1988, the author of the classic Family and
Marriage in Britain (1962), Professor Ronald Fletcher here makes a
new appraisal of the family in society today. Comprehensive in its
range of material and straightforward in style, the book represents
his thoughts on the family and marriage in Britain in the 1980s.
Since the 1969 Divorce Reform Act, many anxieties had been felt and
voiced about the trends of divorce, marital breakdown, the growing
instability of the family and so on. The changes, however, were
hard to discern and assess, statistical records difficult to
interpret reliably. Ronald Fletcher discusses these continuing
anxieties and presents a thorough-going critical review of these
changes and statistics. In his conclusions he emphasises the
continuing importance in modern society of the family and marriage.
Professor Fletcher examines the family as both an agent and symptom
of change. He explores in detail the relation between family life
and the deeper long-term changes which had been at work throughout
the twentieth century - the disrupting experience of world wars;
the rapidity of technological and social change; the many-sided
changes in communications; the spread of secularisation; and
changes in education - seeking a profound and satisfactory causal
explanation. He ends with a consideration of the future of the
family and society alike, and what our social and educational
policies ought to be if certain values and qualities of life are to
be sustained. The Shaking of the Foundations is the companion
volume to The Abolitionists (1989), in which Ronald Fletcher
critically examines the anti-family arguments of the previous
thirty years.
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