Lang Center, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor. $8/students free with ID. There appears to be a dance between structural changes in the United States and the writings of social scientists and their popularizes which give us new ideas about marriage, child rearing and family life in general. We have invited a group of social thinkers, each of whom offers objective and unsentimental views of the family. Moderated by Doyle McCarthy, professor of sociology at Fordham University and author of Knowledge as Culture, panelists are: William Doherty, professor and director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program, Department of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota; Arlene Skolnick, visiting scholar, Department of Sociology, NYU and author of Embattled Paradise; and Andrew J. Cherlin, researcher in the sociology of families and public policy at John Hopkins University and author of Public and Private Families: An Introduction. Sponsored by the Wolfson Center on National Affairs at the New School.

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