Adrian Wilson provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of the family.The book opens with a chapter on family structure looking at the familyhistorical... » 

Adrian Wilson provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of the family.The book opens with a chapter on family structure looking at the familyhistorically and in crosscultural perspective. Following this is a reviewfirst of theoretical approaches to the family including functionalistfeminist Marxist and radical criticism and second how the family is studiedsociologically. Chapters 4 and 5 look at the changing British family andBritish families today and the concluding chapters examine family problemsfor example divorce violence one parent families and the family and thestate. «