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Various kinds of institutional child socialization facilities have risen over the past decade in response to the demand for multiple options by women and other social circumstances. Tasks that were formerly assumed by the extended family are gradually being supplanted by bureaucracies due to changes in the extended family and greater emphasis upon the more mobile nuclear family. This paper examines Eugene Litwak's theory of shared function which attempts to establish a cooperative relationship between families and those bureaucracies created to help, and, in some cases, supplant the family in tasks traditionally tied to the family alone, such as socialization.

Familial power structure in Mexican and Mexican-American farm labor families was explored by standardized interview to determine if the commonly held view of husband dominance could be substantiated. In 76 cases from California state operated migrant family labor camps egalitarianism was by far the most common mode in both decision-making and action-taking. Findings suggest that dominancesubmission patterns are much less universal than previously assumed or never existed but were an ideal or are undergoing radical change.

The relationship between family size and adjustment of children was studied in 256 Midwestern children. The Rogers test of personality adjustment was used. The children in the sample lived in rural areas and towns with populations under 10000 in Ohio Kansas Iowa and Wisconsin. Family sizes ranged from 2 to 11 children. Results indicated that a small family environment does not have a detrimental effect on the childrens personality development and suggested that children from smaller families might fare better psychologically than children from larger families. These findings tend to agree with those of Nye but are at variance with those reported by Bossard and Boll and by Ellis and Beechley. It is noted however that the purpose samples used and methods of analysis employed in the studies were different which makes comparisons difficult.