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The holidays are here! And that means its time, food, gifts and lots and lots of family. It’s also that time of year, when you start to take a good hard look at your family and begin to wonder “Is my family weird?” Well, regardless of how you may feel about your out of town cousins, if your family is in the traditional nuclear family formation (2 parents + kids living in a single home) then you’re in a pretty common formation. But if you’ve got your family ISN’T a traditional nuclear family, then you’re in a pretty common formation. So why does America elevate the nuclear family above other family forms? Watch the episode to find out!

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Written and Hosted By: Danielle Bainbridge
Graphics By: Noelle Smith
Directed By: Andrew Kornhaber
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Works Cited

Marriage Traditions:

https://www.livescience.com/37777-his...
http://thefeministwire.com/2012/05/be...
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/ar...
Loving vs. Virginia
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/12/5321233...
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...

Nuclear Family:
http://family.lovetoknow.com/about-fa...
http://worldfamilymap.ifstudies.org/2...
Hugh Cunningham Children and Childhood in Western Society since 1500
Census Information
https://www.census.gov/library/public...
https://www.census.gov/population/www...
Stephanie Coontz (scholar on marriage and family structure)
Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage
The Way we never were: American families and the Nostalgia trap
Michael Warner The Trouble with Normal
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/op...
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history...
   • A Date With Your Family (1950)  
https://bebusinessed.com/history/hist...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://online.csp.edu/blog/family-sc...
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/...
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/...
http://www.history.com/topics/1950s
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/vie...

Marriage and Legal/Tax benefits:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/w...
https://www.theknot.com/content/benef...


Sources on Representations of Midwives for Episode “Why Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?”

"The Business of Being Born"    • Video  
Info on Georgia's "granny midwives" https://www.colorlines.com/articles/t...
"All my Babies" Georgia dept of health PSA)
   • Video  
   • All My Babies (Georgia Dept of Public...  
https://www.feministpress.org/books-n...
Catching Babies: The Professionalization of Childbirth, 1870-1920 Charlotte G. Borst