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160 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. i (1932)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0160 and id is 1 raw text is: FOREWORD SINCE the first issue of THE ANNALS in 1890, many of its volumes have been devoted to topics of the greatest importance in a considera- tion of the American family. Among these have been several vol- umes on child labor, and others such as Race Improvement in the United States, The Cost of Living, Housing and Town Planning, Women in Public Life, Social Work with Families, Child Wel- fare, and Women in the Modern World. Perhaps the fact that no single number has dealt with the family as a whole may be explained by the emphasis among social scientists on more narrowly specialized in- vestigation, with its corollary belief that such a broad institution as the family could not be discussed adequately in the twenty or thirty brief articles ordinarily included in a volume of THE ANNALS. In a sense this is no doubt true, but the special editor who planned the present volume on The Modern American Family and secured the papers presented in it believes no apology is needed either for the breadth of the task undertaken or for the countless omissions made necessary by limi- tations of space. Our purpose has been to secure summarizing and interpretive con- tributions which might afford readers a comprehensive view of the his- torical background of the American family, a descriptive account of its present form and function, and an analysis of the efforts being made to improve and stabilize this basic social institution. Since THE ANNALS is a forum for the dissemination of information and opinions of all schools of thought in social science, no editorial modifications other than of style have been made in any of the papers, and each contribution must be considered as an expression of the individual opinion of the author. Nevertheless, we take pride in presenting them all, and believe that a better understanding of family life today may be obtained from a study of the entire volume. DONALD YOUNG

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