history of the family

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  7/26/2022
  

  Have Children Changed in Modern America?

  by Steven Mintz

  A recent argument for the general stability of children over the last century and a half misses the key point that "childhood" has been a fluid concept, and changes in how childhood is understood has necessarily affected the experiences of children. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/6/2022
  

  Adoption System Serves People Who Want Babies, Not Women Who Birth Them

  by Gretchen Sisson

  Despite Samuel Alito's rhetoric, adoption as practiced in the US does not resolve the basic conflicts inherent in unwanted pregnancy, which overlap historically with racial and class inequalities in the nation. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  4/5/2022
  

  "Father Knows Best": Anti-LGBTQ Legislation and the Patriarchy

  by Judith Levine

  The elision of children’s interests and parents’ rights is not just bad grammar, however. It is an expression of conservative “pro-family” ideology, which posits the family as an indivisible unit where everyone’s interests are unanimous.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/5/2020
  

  The Revealing and Disturbing Story of America, Told Through 20 Years of Reality Dating Shows

  Reality dating shows, for better or worse, have focused a lens on the state of love, sex and relationships in American society. Here is a list of shows that define each of the 20 years of the genre (and might be historical documents someday?)