Contemporary researchers of the family insist that no definition of the family fits the reality of all the cultural groups and historical periods. ... "All the energy of the group is expended on helping the children to rise in the world, individually and without any collective ambition: children rather than the family.... In a society where the conception of social life is individualistic, drama has to deal with how the character copes with such a society and how the family deals with the problems which beset it with such tedious familiarity: "most characters do not cope at all but o...

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