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Adaptation has been overlooked as a vital function of the family in industrial society. The traditional functions of the family have not been lost, but have changed content and form. The family serves as a mediator by translating change in the larger society into the on-going child and adult socialization process. Its ready adaptability is in part a consequence of its lack of an institutional orgdnization through which to resist change. The adaptive function may be viewed as having functional or dysfunctional consequences.
Clark E. Vincent (Tue,) studied this question.