Abstract
Family life educators have used literature as a teaching tool and also as a field for research. Such usage is not novel, for literature offers the scholar an opportunity to study how a culture is portrayed by lay authors. It is assumed by some people that fiction about the family presents a picture of how society perceives the family as to its customs, strengths, structure, and/or evolvement. Is this a valid assumption? We wondered about it, and we became interested in developing a research methodology which might be used by teachers or researchers to systematically explore literature. Our particular purpose was to see how mother-daughter and father-daughter relationships have been portrayed in families in fiction literature. We wanted to know if such relationships influenced the parental relationships in the stories, and also what types of families were being focused upon in the novels.
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