"Sensible...well-written...Doherty offers up actual tips that will help families connect." ~ USA Today
From conflicting needs and schedules of dual working parents, the fragmentation of our civic, cultural, and religious communities, the prevalence of divorce, and distractions like video games and computers, many strong, cohesive family units have become no more than a loose grouping of individuals with individual timetables and agendas. However, we have the freedom to shape the kind of family we want, rather than conform to inflexible concepts of what a family should be.
Through the use of everyday rituals, The Intentional Family offers a myriad of simple yet effective methods for opening regular channels of communication between parents and their children, husbands and wives: from shared family meals and vacations, to regular "storytime," weekly drives, religious services, and monthly "spouse only" romantic dinners. Clearly presented and engagingly written, family therapist William J. Doherty provides proven and indispensable strategies for reviving a lost sense of family, and for strengthening the ties that bind us together-and create new, more permanent ones in the process.