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2. Virginia Abernethy, Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment( New York: Human Sciences Press, 1979 ).
3. . Virginia Abernethy, “American Marriage in Cross-Cultural Perspective,” in H. Grunebaum and J. Christ, eds., Contemporary Marriage: Structure, Dynamics, and Therapy( Boston: Little, Brown, 1976 ), pp. 33 – 51.
4. E. Waldman, A.S. Grossman, H. Haygle, and B.L. Johnson, “Working Mothers in the 1970’s: A Look at the Statistics,” Monthly Labor Review(October 1979), pp. 36 – 49.
5. L. F. Newman, The Cult of Childrearing: Eighteenth andTwentieth Centuries(Boston: Annual Meeting, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 18 February 1976 ), pp. 1 – 2.