D 01 - Role Attitudes Toward Her Family Life

Role Attitudes Toward Her Family Life

1% /TINISTERS do not check their roles at the front door 1_ V J- upon entering their homes. Parts of their roles are an ever-present reality to them, their wives, and children.

Yet they are all members of the human race, and act and react much as do their fellow human beings. Perhaps they have more situations that demand reactions than the average family.

It is the purpose of this chapter to present the data relevant to the nature of family life within the homes of these wives of ministers. Attention will first be focused on their attitudes toward husband-wife relationships, and second, on certain aspects of life within the parsonage, such as its privacy. (The pasto/s home is variously known as the parsonage, manse, pastorium, and rectory. For purposes of uniformity, the term parsonage will be used here.),