Families: What Makes Them Work

by Hamilton I. McCubbin II, David H. Olson, Howard Barnes, et al.

A major new book in family studies, that concentrates on how normal families work -- their strengths and weaknesses, the kinds of crises and stresses with which they cope, and the changes that come over them during seven stages of their life cycle. Over one thousand families were studied in order to reveal the true complexity of family life by maintaining the separate perspectives of husbands, wives, and adolescent children. ...this book should be...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803920113
• ISBN13: 9780803920118
• Release Date: August 1983
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.