The Mystique That Wasn't
iew (Feb. 1993). Over the past two centuries, since the Industrial Revolution began, there has been a shift away from the family as the basic unit of social organization. "As . . . many of its functions have moved outside the household [e.g., to the workplace], child rearing has moved increasingly out of the household as well. Con- structed social organization, in the form of the school, the nursery school, and the daycare cen- ter, [has] taken over many components of child rearing." These...