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Sociological, biological and health research and findings about race and ethnicity; and personal reflections, anecdotes, and commentary on family values, traditions of different racial and ethnic groups to explore and communicate larger truths about the importance of family, the changing definition of family, across racial and ethnic groups.
August 18th, 2010
Written by Ann Marina in All About Family with 0 Comments
Single father with child
Ten-year-old Solomon Wells has only met his dad one time. Their brief visit was two years ago at his dad’s home in Hawaii. “He’s proud of my soccer games, and really likes it when I send him pictures,” Solomon says. “Sometimes we use email.”Solomon lives in Montana with his mother Laurie, and half-brother Eric, who is seven. This morning, I am calling Laurie, a friend, to ask about interviewing...
August 18th, 2010
Written by Ann Marina in All About Family with 0 Comments
Single mother with child
Health and social services agencies in many U.S. Cities offer support programs for single parents, contact local community health centers, and the state or county Department of Health Services, for information on local programs. The following list is a brief sampling of programs and services available in various cities and states: Illinois: Lutheran Social Services of Illinois provides Single...
July 22nd, 2010
Written by Terez Howard in All About Family with 2 Comments
A biracial child
My 2-year-old daughter looked at my husband and said, “Daddy is tan.” She looked at me and said, “Mama, you’re brown.” She gazed at her milky skin and inquisitively asked, “Mama, what color am I?”I didn’t know what to tell her. She is a very fair-skinned, biracial child. In my household, we don’t make one shade superior to another. I don’t protest that I’m too dark, and my husband doesn’t...
July 13th, 2010
Written by Janet Connor in All About Family with 0 Comments
collage of logos from reality television programs
Americans, since the early days of prime time, have been in love with situation comedy. In its short history, the genre has become an integral part of our culture. The American audience is on a first name basis with favorite sitcom characters, and it is the rare (or very young,) American who does not immediately recognize names like Lucy, Beaver, Opie, Meathead, and Fonzie. In recent years,...
June 4th, 2010
Written by Eun-Joo Park in All About Family with 0 Comments
Words super-imposed over the moon
As a young child in Korea, I learned that dogs said “mung mung,” cats said “yow yow” and roosters screeched “ki-kirikee” at the break of day. Then my family immigrated to the United States and I discovered that American animals spoke an entirely different vocabulary, inspired by the same animal sounds but interpreted differently.The same was true of the new folk songs and nursery rhymes I heard...

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