lathrop's words, challenged the americanization of the family. it is not to get the government to do things for the family, she said. it is to create a family that can do things for itself. the american medical association fiercely opposed shepherd counter. calling it german paternalism, socialism, sob stuff. all the same, the law appears to have worked. infant deaths due to gast gastrointestinal diseases, the ones most preventible by education fell 49% between 1920 and 1928. as the first social entitlement without means test, shepherd counter was notably a successful pro-life and pro-family. my third character is arthur altmire. only recently have american historians come to appreciate how religious communetarians born in europe took root in america during the late 19th century. in his important volume "the minds of the west," berkeley historian john yarty shows how the flowering of intellectual movements carried from europe built upon fears of familial social decline. in response, these idea movements in america sought to privilege national ins

now echoing jewely lathrop, reagan hinted the family could again serve as a force for assimilation and national unity, and a new time of mass immigration. we have all been enriched by the contributions of hispanics in every walk of american life, he told an audience in the white house rose garden. most characteristic of hispanic culture he continued was la casa. the almost mystical center of daily life where grandparents and children and grandchildren all come together in the familia. he added, but i fear that too often in the mad rush of modern american life some people have not learned the great wisdom of our hispanic heritage, the lesson of family and home and church and community. the most coherent effort by the reagan administration to resurrect a traditionalist family policy was the 66-page report developed by an interagency working group on the family shared by undersecretary of education gary bower. entitled "the family" preserving america's future, and released in november 1986, the document blasted the abrasive experiments of two liberal decades, such as day care, population