... is the non-family mode. This is where all of an individual's social activities are organized around non-family units. These units can be businesses, schools, and governmental agencies. The author's explain that they understand that no one family's organization matches either of these modes, however, most fall somewhere between the two. The authors quote Coopersmith by saying that "Self-Esteem ... using a systematic probability sample of 1961 birth records from one metropolitan area. Approximately equal numbers of married white women who had given birth to a first, second, or fourth chil...

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