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My academic training is as a social historian, and it is with history that I wish to begin. Contemporary issues surrounding family life, gender roles, and child care usually generate controversy. Accordingly, it is important to remember that the “collision” between home and work – in its origins at least – was not the result of ideological conflict. The child care problems facing the member states of The European Union and other economically developed nations all derive from a common event: what the Hungarian-born economic historian Karl Polanyi called “The Great Transformation.”    [Continued...]

Click here for the May World Congress of Families News. The big stories include:

• Religious leaders to speak at World Congress of Families V (Amsterdam, August 10-12, 2009)

• Our first African Conference – “The Dialogue of Civilizations” – June 5-7 in Abuja, Nigeria, in conjunction with the Foundation for African Cultural Heritage

• The World Congress of Families Riga Family Forum, held May 15 in Latvia

• Leadership profiles of Wendy Wright (Concerned Women for America) and Dr. Wanda Franz (National Right to Life)

• Canada’s National March for Life, which drew more than 12,000 to Ottawa on May 14

• A tribute to our dear friend Enrique Gomez Serrano, who passed away recently

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