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LEWIS, Jane. Should We Worry about Family Change? (The 2001 Joanne Goodman Lectures) Toronto: University of Toronto Pres 2003 136pp $4000 (h)

through the past quarter-century, the pace of family change in principally Western countries has been extremely rapid; we have witnessed the substantial erosion of the traditional male-breadwinner, two-parent family form. This change inherently makes past those laws and policies that assume the breadwinner/homemaker family construction Should We Worry about Family Change? unpacks the generally received controversies and larger issues surrounding family change: the nature of family change; the impact of family change onward the lives of women; and the ne for amendment to our social policies and laws to contemplate today's diverse family patterns. Taking into account the historical progression in a continuously ascending gradation of the family and the social policies that have attempted to convenient familial concerns, Lewis comments forward such pivotal topics as absent fathers, the increasing economic independence of women and the efficiencys of the rise of cohabitation. Lewis explores various policy options that have the potential to exalt family well-being and responsibility while expanding the choices available to men and women in regard to their contributions to family life. Drawing in succession a wide range of literature, cross-national data, and policy approaches, Lewis engages her readers in a highly public and timely debate.

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