Introduction
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap, starts from the very simple discussions on the general myths and beliefs that we live with, in our society today, even with the changing generations with a much altered psychology of family values, the idea of an ideal family is very much similar to what it remained some five decades ago. The function of each person in the family is so embedded into that frame of ideal relation that it is still something that people long for, however with the much changing lifestyle the myth of attaining such ideal ...