Momox .org
  • Home
  • Pip of Sedro Woolley novel
  • New Age: New Answers book
  • White Bird novel
  • My Boat novel
  • KIDS.STEM
  • Women S&E Resources
  • Lithuania ++
  • Boomer Links
  • Misogyny Video
  • Blog
  • Art
  • About

Stephanie Coontz --The Way We Really Are: Coming To Terms With America's Changing Families (1998)

6/25/2015

0 Comments

 
Picture

Coontz addresses the mythology that surrounds today’s family—the demonizing of “untraditional” family forms and marriage and parenting issues. She argues that while it’s not crazy to miss the more hopeful economic trends of the 1950s and 1960s, few would want to go back to the gender roles and race relations of those years. Mothers are going to remain in the workforce, family diversity is here to stay, and the nuclear family can no longer handle all the responsibilities of elder care and childrearing.

http://www.amazon.com/Way-We-Really-Are-Americas/dp/0465090923

WHY CARE?

If you feel like you were not in a "normal" family, get over it. There is a "new normal," and it is not two parents and two children, stable through everyone's life. The profile of families has changed a lot: single-parent, female-headed, unmarried with children, same-sex, blended after a divorce, and so on. Yet children are still feeling sorry for themselves for "not being normal." Another set of "myths about normal" that we need to revise.

0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    Ruta Sevo

    Writer, Advocate,
    Crone, Boomer,
    Librarian

    Archives

    July 2021
    August 2020
    July 2020
    February 2020
    May 2019
    April 2019
    January 2019
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    January 2018
    August 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    October 2016
    September 2016
    April 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    October 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015

    Categories

    All
    Aging
    Buddhism
    Careers
    Channeling
    Discrimination
    Great Books
    Great Movies
    Great Reports
    Great Women
    Lithuanian Emigre
    Paranormal
    Past Lives
    Psychic/medium
    Sexism
    Status Of Women
    STEM
    Technology
    Trip Report
    Writing

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly