"Family education and conselling have undergone a secular process of professionalization in the development sonce the 1950s. But the churches have tried to reclaim them as an area for legitimate pastoral care in the West, and many seminaries in North America and Europe provide special trainig to future pastors in family education and conselling.
"In the late 50s and early 60s, teh developed countries tried to expot family education and conselling, in its secular professionalized form, to the third world. This has not taken root, nor proved very useful, not because the families experience no crisis, but because the professional family counsellors are ill-prepared to develop approaches relevant to the different cultures. Families in the third worls are being destabilized and tranfromed in the very process of modernization and evangelization."
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