Violence and the Struggle for Existence

Abstract

brenner seems to take Soviet parental control of their children as involvement with them. Yet Soviet mothers have little time to spend with their children, since as many as 82 percent of Soviet between the ages of 16 sand 54 are either working or studying. (Here Bronfenbrenner provides us with an erroneous figure of percent of all age-eligible women being in the labor force (p. 9), presumably confusing it with the fact that constitute 48 percent of the entire labor force.) Problems of Soviet society aside, Bronfenbrenner's major thesis is that American society is drifting and that the process of growing up in America is largely accidental, devoid of purpose and direction. The key unanswered question of the book is who is going to set the direction and how? ALEX SIMIRENKO The Pennsylvania State University