Families As We Are has at its core the words and ideas of ordinary people. Huston spent more than four years interviewing three and four generations of families of all socioeconomic backgrounds in twelve countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, El Salvador, Japan, Jordan, Mali, Thailand, Uganda, and the United States.
While others mourn the loss of "family values," Huston discovers families who are strengthening themselves to face new realities. She describes the new forces that are changing families and finds positive as well as negative values in these transformations. While traditional families have been undermined by urbanization, economic transformation, emigration, and the global information culture, the family has also been positively changed by an increased regard for individual liberties and democratic values, and by a breakdown of patriarchal power. Huston expands the definition of family, demonstrating that families come in all sizes and forms, from small nuclear families to large multigenerational groups, from street children who band together for protection and companionship to groups of prostitute women who live together and care for each other's children. Through the words of scores of family members, this volume presents families reinforcing and revisioning bonds forged of tradition and pragmatism, respect and love, as they face the challenges of the new millennium. Huston's fresh perspective--gained from several decades of working directly with families around the world--leads her to conclude that while the changes in families "may look like breakdown to those facing backwards, it looks like renovation to those facing the future.""synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
"Will grab immigrant teens, but all readers will relate to the stories across generations, for curriculum and personal reading."
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This book offers an informed response to the policy makers and media pundits who have joined forces to bemoan the 'decline of the family'. Perdita Huston's fresh perspective -- gained from several decades of working directly with families around the world -- leads her to conclude that while the changes in families "may look like breakdown to those facing backwards, it looks like renovation to those facing the future". While others mourn the loss of 'family values', Huston discovers families who are strengthening themselves to face new realities. She describes the new forces that are changing family structures and relationships, and finds positive as well as negative values in these transformations. While traditional family structures have been undermined by urbanisation, economic shifts, emigration, and the global information culture, the family has also been positively changed by an increased regard for individual liberties and democratic values.
Huston's work broadens the concept of family, demonstrating that families come in all sizes and forms, from small nuclear families to large multigenerational groups, from street children who band together for protection and companionship to groups of prostitute women who live together and care for each other's children. Through the words of scores of family members, this volume presents families reinforcing and re-envisioning bonds forged of tradition, pragmatism, respect, and love, as they face the challenges of the new millennium."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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