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• 23 Jul 08
  

  Jeremy Price

  kids parenting social community culture anthropology research

  • One of the things that leapt out at me on this project was how much of the social world of my respondents is organized by "kidship." 
  • Kidship has certain graphite quality to its sociality.  There is also an easy familiarity between parents.  As plenitude creates new diversity in the American social world, people can rely apon parenting to supply common interests and ready topics of conversation.
  • Kidship has the advantage of being something still more urgent, child rearing an art and science that perpetuates its difficulty as American culture rolls bumpily on. 

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