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which compares "The Way We Really Are" by Stephanie Coontz and "Amazing Grace" by
Jonathan Kozol, examining aspects of families today. These books are also briefly
discussed as they address "Am I Blue?" by Bruce Coville and "The Woman Who Walked
Into Walls" by Roddy Doyle. No additional sources cited.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAcoontz.doc
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commercials. We picture the parents working, the children being healthy and happy, and essentially picture the American dream. In reality, however, families are much more diverse and not nearly so
happy or well taken care of on the whole. There are families of many different socioeconomic types, families made up of very different individuals, dysfunctional abusive families, and families which
merely remain outside the norm. We have families that have eight or more children, and families with none. There are families that are well educated and appear to be the
perfect family, and there are those who are honestly ignorant and the result of incestuous joining. In speaking openly and honestly, America is made up of many different family
types today, which is the subject of "The Way We Really Are" by Stephanie Coontz and "Amazing Grace" by Jonathan Kozol. In these books the authors address different aspects of
relationship, Coontz addressing all the different forms families can take, and Kozol discussing families in one of the most economically impoverished cities in the country. In the following paper we
compare the two books and briefly make mention of how their ideas are also seen in "Am I Blue?" by Bruce Coville and "The Woman Who Walked Into Walls" by
Roddy Doyle. The Complexity of Families Today In Coontzs book many different families are discussed in their honest contexts. The author does not disregard the complexity of
todays socioeconomic issues and their impact on families, which is more often than not the sole aspect of family studies, but she does illustrate just how complex and unique our
period in history is, in relationship to families and their changing conditions. She discusses working mothers, the future of the institute of marriage, the condition of children in gay and
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