“The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.”

Talcott Parsons, Robert Freed Bales (1956) Family: socialization and interaction process http://archive.org/details/familysocializat00parsrich. p. 16

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