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Stephanie Coontz
Stephanie Coontz is the author of
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap.
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March 29, 2016
Stephanie Coontz
The Way We Never Were
For much of the century, traditional "family values" have been more myth than reality.
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