Blog Assignment 1: Ideal Families


  • What is the popular concept of the ideal American family? What do the members of the family look like and act like?  Who is included?  Where to they live?  How do they live?  
  • Why is this the kind of family that fits this concept?  How has this idea formed in your head?
  • Consider your own family:  how does real life compare to the image you've just described?

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