RT Journal
T1 HIghlights of the national conference on family life, washington, d. c., may 5-8, 1948
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD January 22
VO 139
IS 4
SP 268
OP 268
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900210074035
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900210074035
AB This is a pamphlet giving a brief summary of the proceedings of the National Conference on Family Life held in Washington, D. C., May 5 through 8, 1948. It consists mainly of the suggestions and recommendations arrived at by the Conference. Minority and divergent ideas are found in the footnotes. The Conference arrived at more or less obvious conclusions relating to the needs of individual family members in their community relationships. It called for more activities to draw the father back into active family membership and suggested the provision of more opportunities for the participation of young persons in community activities. The emphasis seemed to be on strengthening the family, but there is evidence in this report of a trend of thinking all too common at this time, namely, the "strengthening" of the family by coordinating it into more community activities, which tend to deemphasize the family and exalt the