Stephanie Coontz

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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap This fabulous, eye-opening book challenges popular notions of what American families were like in the past. Almost every page has a shock -- whether it's that thousands of children as young as 11 worked in Pennsylvania mines and silk mills in 1900; or there may have been as many as 1 abortion for every 5 live births in the 1850s; that per capita consumption of alcohol was much higher in the 1820s than it is today; that Mother's Day originated to celebrat...	View these reviews in summary mode Stephanie Coontz Message Board 4/24/2006 7:21:23 PM Talk about the novels, new and used books that Coontz has written!