The processes of knowledge and description of the family reality that will begin with the project of the Family International Monitor (FIM) are characterised by two main qualities: the multidimensional nature of the overviews and the circularity of the communicative processes.
Based on the interaction of the two criteria that we have briefly described, we have chosen to characterise the Newsletter of the Monitor with a single plan of monographic interventions, that can highlight, in each occasion, some keywords of the internal life of the family, or some social and economic emergencies; each of them has its own specificity and originality (and deserves some particular attention), but neither of them is able, alone, to enclose an adequate reading of the condition of life of the families.
Francesco Belletti, Director Cisf (Centro Internazionale Studi Famiglia), Scientific Director FIM
