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Artists, authors, and songwriters regard love as the key feature of adult family life in Western civilization (Swidler, 1980). “Love” was present in the family identity responses as a word that described the feelings of adults for their spouses and children. When the word was used, though, it was never defined further. The respondents took it as a given that love was a definition sufficient unto itself.
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Whitbourne, S.K. (1986). Love Is Not Enough. In: The Me I Know. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8618-6_3
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