PEDIATRICS Vol. 52 No. 5 November 1973, pp. 765-766
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Understanding Your Child From Birth To Three: A Guide To Your Child's Psychological Development, by Joseph Church. New York: Random House, 1973, 267 pp., $6.95

Mary Howell M.D.1

1 Boston, Massachusetts

More than 60% of the marriages contracted in the current year are expected to come to divorce or separation. Not only marriage but also parenthood is in a state of uncertainty; many young people are looking at the families they have known and wondering if the rewards of being parents outweigh the distress they believe they see. There is a growing body of social science literature that points to the isolated mother-father-child family–expecting to meet all of their needs behind the closed doors of their homes, and with responsibilities sharply divided between wage earner and housekeeper–as a family system that puts maximum stress on minimum strength.