Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Foreword 7
3. Contents 9
4. 1. Purpose: What This Book Is About 13
5. 2. Method: How the Study Was Made 24
6. 3. Subject: Children in a Hundred Large Families 39
7. 4. Attitudes and Motives: How Its Members Regard the Large Family 53
8. 5. Interaction–Personal Relations Within the Large Family 76
9. 6. The Vulnerability of the Large Family 106
10. 7. Child Rearing in the Large Family 126
11. 8. Interaction Among the Siblings 148
12. 9. Interaction Among the Siblings (continued) 167
13. 10. Personality Patterns Among the Siblings 201
14. 11. Selected By-products of Large Family Living 222
15. 12. Family Formation in the Next Generation 262
16. 13. Marital Happiness of Persons Reared in Large Families 285
17. 14. The Large Family System 305
18. Subject Index 323
19. Index of Authors 325