1. Hard Times
Calhoun, in A Social History of the American Family (1945), states that "American family life seemed to the observer from Europe to be strangely lacking in closeness and warmth. A visitor to America wrote: "Domestic life in America has the appearance of being cold and formal."5 It may be useful to mention that the political, economic and social developments which accompanied the growth of the American family affected the changes in the family relations and values. ... He is part of this society and he lives the experience, therefore "the playwright of family life have digested the ...