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with contributions from Donald R. Lloyd, Linda Braun

Studies in the 1950s and 1960s identified the strongest kinship link as being the one between mothers and daughters. Now, the amount of contact between these two is declining, according to research by the Family Policy Studies Centre. The proportion of women who see their mothers weekly has dropped from 64% to 45%. The director of the centre, Ceridwen Roberts, commented, "Full-time working women—even when they have children—are becoming more like working men in the amount of contact they have with their own mothers and other key extended family members."

Reported in The Sunday Times (London)
August 24, 1997

Over a decade ago I [attended a] seminar with Lyle E. Schaller. During our time together this veteran church analyst made two rather shocking statements. He said, "People choose a church more on the basis of its size than any other single factor." He also said, "The most intentional thing a church does is (to determine) its size." ...

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