“My Dear,” said grandmother to her little granddaughter, ‘I wish you would do something for me. Would you promise not to use two words? One is swell and the other is lousy.” “Sure, granny,” said the nice little girl. “What are the two words?”
If we should ask one of our children to draw a picture of a “Christian Family,” we would surely get a group picture sociologists have labeled the “nuclear family”: a mother, a father, and a child or children. Three or four generations ago, that picture likely would have included a grandmother and grandfather; an uncle or an aunt, perhaps; even a cousin or two. The nuclear age, with its urban sprawl, has disbanded the “extended family.” Granny is no longer on the day-to-day scene, pitching in with household chores, taking the kids for new shoes, and trying to enrich little girl’s vocabularies.
There are those who are expressing disenchantment with the tightening up of the family circle. “Women’s Lib”…
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