KALOTICS
What is to be Done With Our World?
Forty Basic Problems and Their Solutions:
Forty Stases and Theses
by Alfred de Grazia
15.
Family relations are chaotic and retarding; although the typical family everywhere is sexist, authoritarian, and stripped of effective functions by society and technology; people stay with it because of compulsion, sickness, dependency, and lack of anywhere to go.
The family must be a constitutional organ,
rehearsing later life; its members need equal chances to express their qualities, to elect membership beyond fourteen years; as a center of productive emotions;
affiliated with surrogates for the old extended families;
its members should be assured financial independence.