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A MARKED tendency in educational and social thought of recent years, and a tendency accentuated by the strains to which society has been subjected by the War and the ensuing peace, has been the renewed emphasis placed on the family as the basic social unit and as the most powerful educational influence acting upon the individual. It is therefore not surprising that in various countries efforts have been made to set up organisations to co-ordinate activities relating to family life; organisations such as the National Council on Family Relations in the United States, the Family Relations Group in Great Britain, and the Union Nationale des· Associations Familiales in France. The next needed step was clearly the formation of some machinery for international information and documentation, and the building of this machinery has now been started.
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BIBBY, C. An International Union of Family Organisations. Nature 160, 183–184 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160183a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/160183a0