Disturbing the Nest: Family Change and Decline in Modern Societies

by David Popenoe

Book Overview

Disturbing the Nest assesses the future of the family as an institution through an historical and comparative analysis of the nature, causes, and social implications of family change in advanced western societies such as the United States, New Zealand, and Switzerland by focusing on the one society in which family decline is found to be the greatest, Sweden. The founding of the modern Swedish welfare state was based in large part on the belief...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202303519
• ISBN13: 9780202303512
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"