| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 185. Jl. ’07. 820w. |
“Mrs. Parsons has written a most valuable contribution to sociological study. She has pursued the scientific and not the theologic method, and therein lies her sole offense. This world will be a better one to live in because of this thought-stimulating and exhaustive guide to the scientific study of the family.” Theodore Schroeder.
| + + | Arena. 37: 105. Ja. ’07. 1690w. | |
| Ath. 1907, 1: 445. Ap. 13. 720w. |
Reviewed by Edward T. Devine.
| Charities. 17: 475. D. 15. ’06. 1200w. |
“A better book to put into the hands of the mature person looking for trustworthy information and judicious guidance of his thinking upon the family problem, it would be hard to find.” Franklin H. Giddings.
| + + | Educ. R. 34: 202. S. ’07. 670w. |
“Outline notes constitute the greater portion and the chief value of the work. The fact that the author is not obsessed by a novel theory of her own, like some of her more original predecessors, makes the book more useful to the elementary student.”
| + + | Ind. 61: 1348. D. 6, ’06. 780w. | |
| + + | J. Philos. 4: 467. Ag. 15, ’07. 440w. |
“It is scholarly, abounds with references to authorities and to text-books for the student’s reading, but deals almost wholly with the family in its primitive forms. In our judgment it is wholly inadequate as a text-book for the study of the family, because it practically ignores the nature, origin, function, and laws of the modern Christian family, which is what the student most needs to comprehend.”