Tomorrow's Family Reforms: Marriage Course, Marriage Test, Incorporated Families, and Sex Selection Mandate.

Shostak, Arthur B.

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Publication Date: 1981-Oct

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Tomorrow's Family Reforms: Marriage Course, Marriage Test, Incorporated Families, and Sex Selection Mandate.

Shostak, Arthur B.

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, v7 n4 p521-26 Oct 1981

Discusses specific new laws and programs to strengthen family life suggested in the (N=34) detailed reforms proposed and endorsed by the 1980 White House Conference on Families. Explores four reform possibilities including high school marriage preparation classes, a mandated marriage readiness test, family incorporation, and support for prenatal screening. (Author/JAC)

Descriptors: Birth, Educational Innovation, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Life Education, Family Structure, Futures (of Society), Marriage Counseling, Public Policy, Screening Tests, Secondary Education, Social Change, State of the Art Reviews

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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