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THIS is a study of the economic stability and psychological adjustments of several hundred families drawn from different parts of the United States. A prior study of the same families was carried out in 1927 and the present investigation was planned with the purpose of discovering any effects due to the intervening five-year period of economic depression (1927–1932). A comparison is made between the earlier and later results. The sample of families was relatively homogeneous as regards socio-economic status. The general outcome, according to the author, seems to favour the family as a social institution.
The Family meets the Depression
A Study of a Group of Highly Selected Families. By Prof. Winona L. Morgan. (Institute of Child Welfare, Monograph No. 19.) Pp. x + 126. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1939.) 9s. net.
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[Short Reviews]. Nature 145, 140 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145140c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145140c0