About the product
This book explores the characteristics of families that strengthen the family unit and promote the development of its individual members. It examines how family social health improves the well-being of children and how family functioning interacts with national and international development. It also considers the effects of modernization on the family, the usefulness of mathematical models in quantifying the effects of family change on economic development and human welfare, psychological studies of the family and development assistance programmes. In concluding the authors present a unified cross-disciplinary paradigm of the socially well family and also suggest policy and programme priorities.
