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The author identifies four cycles of the family in the US that show periods of a strengthening or weakening of family systems. He outlines a single model of distinctly American traits, which involve early and nearly universal marriage, high fertility, close attention to parental responsibilities, complementary gender roles, flexible but real intergenerational bonds, an aspiration toward family economic autonomy, and relative stability, and describes 50-year periods from 1630 to 2000 when these traits alternated between dominance or weakness. He shows how these cycles were due to intellectual, economic, cultural, and religious influences connected to generational changes. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
