ABSTRACT
The portrait of the traditional American family is fading fast, yet the frame still hangs on the walls of American corporate and government offices, as well as those of psychotherapists. The portrait shows a white male with two children and a wife who doesn’t work outside the home. He puts in a 9-to-5, five-day workweek, and he leaves his work at the office or shop. He rarely allows family matters to impinge on his work life and vice versa.
