TY - JOUR T1 - HIghlights of the national conference on family life, washington, d. c., may 5-8, 1948 Y1 - 1949/01/22 N1 - 10.1001/jama.1949.02900210074035 JO - Journal of the American Medical Association SP - 268 EP - 268 VL - 139 IS - 4 N2 - 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 SN - 0002-9955 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.1949.02900210074035 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900210074035 ER -