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The family and its discontents

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  1. Institute of Human Development, the University of California, Berkeley

    Arlene Skolnick (research psychologist)

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She is the editor of Rethinking Childhoodand (with Jerome H. Skolnick) Family in Transition,as well as the author of The Intimate Environment.

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Skolnick, A. The family and its discontents. Society 18, 42–47 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02694668

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