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Frank, Mary, Ed. – Children in Contemporary Society, 1979
This collection of seven abridged symposium papers discusses contemporary social conditions which affect the nuclear family and suggests directions for intervention. The introduction declares that the family remains the single most important unit in civilized society. Its destruction is seen to be the destruction of society as we know it. The…
Descriptors: Authors, Church Programs, Economic Factors, Family Characteristics
Carnegie Quarterly, 1988
Project SPIRIT, a Carnegie Corporation sponsored program of the Congress on National Black Churches, has worked within the black community, particularly black churches, to try to strengthen black families. Black churches have played a critically important role in sustaining the black family since the days of slavery. The black church in the 1980s,…
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Family, Church Programs, Church Role