CHAPTER V Home and Family-Life Education

DURING the three years since the previous review on this topic appeared, a very considerable amount of research dealing with homes and family members has been completed. Much of this research has implications for education since it often shows what needs to be taught or discloses facts and principles useful in guiding students in the solution of problems of everyday living in homes. Studies showing nutritional lacks of children or adults, or showing undesirable food habits, problems of adolescents in relationships with parents or siblings, lacks in essential information on the part of consumers, or effects of housing on family life, are all illus-trations of research which is grist for the mill of the educator, especially the curriculum worker in the field of home and family life. Psychological studies of the behavior of those who live in families from the nursery-school years to the most elderly person now served by adult education are also pertinent to education for family life. So, too, the research into family behavior and into community life in its rela