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New Times: New Families (Hardcover, 2002 ed.)
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New Times: New Families (Hardcover, 2002 ed.)
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There can be little doubt that ours is a society riding the crest
of vast and profound social and economic change. The material
conditions and social landscapes through which we experience our
lives are increasingly an unchartered sea of unanticipated shift
and hidden consequence and many of us have the unsettling feeling
that we are out of our depth. It is natural to respond to this
rapid and fundamental change with concern, particularly when many
of the enduring keystones of our lives have been problematized.
Family is one such keystone. Family-and its apparent decline-is a
topic of great interest. The breakdown of marriage and other
relationships, family roles and responsibilities, the alienation of
children, the rights of grandparents, juvenile crime and drug
usage, and the emotional fallout of divorce are all current and
emotive issues. Few individuals remain untouched by this debate.
The changes we are witnessing in relation to family are made all
the more worrisome because we have a limited vocabulary for
discussing and understanding profound change-a vocabulary
characterized by normative framings and assumptions of deficit. It
is very easy to look at the changes in 'traditional' family
structure and read 'breakdown', 'decline' and 'loss'. A politics of
blame and rhetoric of 'reconstitution' very quickly follows.
However, given the fundamental nature of contemporary social and
economic change, this is not an adequate response.
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