Parents, Families, and Intimacy
With Mother s Day just behind us, Father s Day on the way, and all of June designated as LGBTQIA Pride Month, we decided to feature a collection of episodes that pays tribute to parents and families of all compositions.
Our collection begins back in 2010, when John and Ken spoke to Stanford sociologist Michael Rosenfeld, author of
The Age of Independence: Interracial Unions, Same-Sex Unions and the Changing American Family, about the postmodern family.
Those families often include children and young adults, whose (in)dependence from their mothers and/or fathers is itself changing. So the philosophers turned to Ethan Watters, author of