history of the family 
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SOURCE: History Workshop
5/11/2023
Ayahs, Amahs and Empire: The History of Domestic Care Work under Colonialism
by Julia Laite
The history of domestic and child care work has become increasingly robust, but museums and public exhibitions have struggled to find ways to represent the work and experiences of women, many from south Asia, who traveled with white colonial families to perform this labor, putting marginalized people in charge of the empire's children.
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SOURCE: JSTOR Daily
4/13/2023
Is Parental Divorce the Hallmark of the Gen X Experience?
As 90s nostalgia gets mined for commercial benefit, a researcher looks at the centrality of divorce in the cultural expressions of Gen X.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/24/2023
How did Work Invade Our Idea of Marriage?
Why would people understand marriage through the frame of work and expect to be happy? Historian Kristin Celello explains the alternatives.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
1/10/2023
A Family Therapist Looks to Historians for Insight on the Changing Forms of Family Estrangement
Stephanie Coonts and Steven Mintz say that the shift in family bonds from obligation and resources to personal growth and happiness have exacerbated tensions and increased the level of estrangement in multigenerational families.
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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?)
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