TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coontz,Stephanie
TI  - The way we never were: American families and the nostalgia trap 
SN  - 0465090974
AV  - HQ535 .C643 2000
U1  - 306.850973 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - BasicBooks
KW  - Families
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Nostalgia
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-379) and index; The way we wish we were : defining the family crisis -- "Leave it to Beaver" and "Ozzie and Harriet" : American families in the 1950s -- "My mother was a saint" : individualism, gender myths, and the problem of love -- We always stood on our own two feet : self-reliance and the American family -- Strong families, the foundation of a virtuous society : the family and civic responsibility -- A man's home is his castle : the family and outside intervention -- Bra-burners and family bashers : feminism, working women, consumerism, and the family -- "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes Mary with a baby carriage" : marriage, sex, and reproduction -- Toxic parents, supermoms, and absent fathers : putting parenting in perspective -- Pregnant girls, wilding boys, crack babies, and the underclass : the myth of black family collapse -- The crisis reconsidered
N2  - Looks at two centuries of American family life and shatters myths and misconceptions about the past
ER  -