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Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon
Drawing on dozens of intimate audio interviews with families from all across the country, award-winning psychologist and writer Andrew Solomon redefines what it means to be an “ideal family” in America today. Solomon observes that America, led in large part by the women’s, civil rights, and gay rights movements, has undergone a radical social shift in the last few decades.
While three-quarters of American children lived in families with two (first-time) married, heterosexual parents in the 1960s, today less than half do. The conventional family, Solomon argues, has broken into a multitude of perfect families, including gay families, multiparent families, adoptive families, foster families, families built through assisted reproduction, single parent-headed families, and child-free families. Although the structure of family has changed, economic and legal structures lag behind and need to adapt to accommodate this explosive new reality.
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Go Behind the Scenes of New Family Values
Bringing up baby in the twenty-tens
I once saw Andrew Solomon speak live, and he had a full theater riveted, laughing, gasping, and crying. Don’t be surprised if you experience a similar range of emotions while listening to this, his exploration of the evolving definition of “family” – from blended, to same-sex parented, to “rainbow.” A multi-voiced, on-the-ground-reported tour de force about bringing up baby in the twenty-tens.
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About the Author and Performer
Andrew Solomon is an author and a professor of clinical psychology at Columbia University Medical Center. He writes and lectures on politics, psychology, and the arts. He is the author of Far and Away: How Travel Can Change the World; the New York Times bestseller Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and more than 20 other national awards); and The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the 2001 National Book Award). His TED Talks have garnered over 20 million views. He lives in New York and London with his husband and son, and also has a larger post-nuclear family.
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Power view of family
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A beautiful rethinking of family
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Exquisite insights
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