The Family in the Year 2000

Abstract

The upheavals and the rapid changes taking place in the modern world cannot but exert a profound influence upon the structure of the family and its evolution. The author of the paper, “Some suggestions for a social policy to promote the interests of children” — a paper commissioned by the Committee for Social Action of the French Sixth Plan, writes: “During the last twenty years the image of the family has undergone considerable changes. It seems now to be tending to become nothing more than a channel for the transmission of social values, on the same footing as other instruments of education, such as the school or the mass media.”