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The Effect of the Information Age on Family Values
By Dennis M. Parker


The Effect of the Information Age on Family Values
The world might be increasingly reliant on high-tech gadgets and new-media information sources, but, contrary to popular belief, that has only seemed to strengthened traditional family values. What we need to realize is that “traditional family values” is a very hard thing to define, because it means different things depending on different families’ traditions. “The Family” idealized by many of the voices in the family-values wars does not exist -- rather, families assume many shapes and forms, and all family types have strengths as well as vulnerabilities. Americans have still not come to terms with the gap between the way we think our families ought to be and the complex, often messy realities of our lives—or as John Gillis puts it, in his new book A World of Their Own Making, the gap between the families we live with and the symbolic......

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