Growing public concern about the quality of family life has caused the United Nations to choose 1994 as the Year of the Family. For pastors, consellors, parish and study groups and for those concerned to lead more fulfilled family lives, this is the book of the year. What is happening to the family? What is its future? Whatever happened to Christian family values? This book draws on the social and behavioral sciences on Scripture and on knowledge of the way families live, to offer a new vision for family life today.