Family Fragments?

by Bren Neale and Carol Smart

Book Overview

This exciting new book engages with the recent resurgence of interest in the family, offering empirical material and theoretical analysis which give rise to a fresh understanding of the nature of family practices in modern societies. The past decade has seen the emergence of an orthodoxy which depicts the family as being in moral decline and 'blames' parents for the harms of divorce. Family Fragments? takes issue with this political vision and with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745618944
• ISBN13: 9780745618944
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"