Family Power: The Assessment of a Decade of Theory and Research, 1970-1979

was initially sparked, in large part, by Blood and Wolfe's Husbands and Wives (1960) and their elaboration of a theory of family power. Subsequent efforts by family scholars, and other social scientists, have involved testing and retesting this resource theory model, and derivative models, as well as elaborating the theoretical and methodological issues in family power research.