By Jan E. Dizard
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Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington gave us the first critical reading of our manuscript. Both their critique and their encouragement came at a moment when our uncertainty and self-doubt had peaked. Without their support, many more years might have passed before we finished. Page xii Bill and Zelda Gamson, Bob Ross, Milton Cantor, Bruce Laurie, Donald Pitkin, David Wellman, Jim Youniss, and George Levinger all read earlier versions of the manuscript and gave us invaluable suggestions for ways to improve it.
The decline of the family, from this vantage point, is lamentable. The lament, though, can only evoke nostalgia for a former golden age of family living, an idealization for which Jan had no appetite. Howard avoided this dilemma by adopting the position that the demise of the family is largely to the good. Both the ideal and the reality of the family carry so many encumbrances on individual freedom and growth that they are insupportable. Even more important, as its conservative defenders insist, the family is a bulwark of the social order.
We incurred many obligations in the course of bringing The Minimal Family to fruition. Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington gave us the first critical reading of our manuscript. Both their critique and their encouragement came at a moment when our uncertainty and self-doubt had peaked. Without their support, many more years might have passed before we finished. Page xii Bill and Zelda Gamson, Bob Ross, Milton Cantor, Bruce Laurie, Donald Pitkin, David Wellman, Jim Youniss, and George Levinger all read earlier versions of the manuscript and gave us invaluable suggestions for ways to improve it.