It's Hard To Know When A Fact Cherlin

The overall purpose of Chapter 1 Springing Forward from the Past: An Introduction is to inform the reader of which topics that are going to be taught in each part in this book. What chapter one is describing is information about who is behind all of the reading in the textbook. The book is made up of essays, fact sheets, briefs, and symposiums from members of the Council on Contemporary Families (CFC). These people study and work with families all the time. The material in this book are not reprints, so they will not be found anywhere else. The reason they study families all the time is because they are interested in the diversity of families and their secrets. This chapter also lets the readers know that this book gives us the newest information about families and new articles to research about. In chapter one they describe each part in the book because the book is divided by eight parts. In part one they describe the overview of the book and what the chapters include. Also giving insight of what the members of the CFC have written about. It talks about all the different people who went into writing these articles. They talk about what their articles are supposed to do to the readers and …show more content…
This chapter is written by Andrew J. Cherlin. The first paragraph of this chapter is talking about what makes a fact an actual fact. What questions to ask to get a truth and secure the thought as a fact. The author gives an example of Paul Glick in 1941 creating the field of the Bureau of the Census, and writing an article about dividing American families into three groups. These groups are normal families: a category that consisted of all two-parent families, another one is male-headed families, and the last one is female-headed families. He implied that all single-parent families were