The Family and Democratic Society

The quality of this book is very variable. Professor Folsom has sought to write a comprehensive summary of the family, a source book covering all its aspects, and has drawn his data from a wide number of fields?psychology, economics, religion, anthropology and sociology. It follows that many of the sections are but brief summaries of the work of others, a compression of the subject matter of books into a few lines, as in the 30-page section on a world survey of family patterns. This gives to the book an air of superficiality, a breathless feeling and often a tabloid