{"id":46080,"date":"2012-04-21T11:40:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T16:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=46080"},"modified":"2013-11-08T04:36:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T09:36:21","slug":"what-is-a-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/04\/21\/what-is-a-family\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a &#8220;Family&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/thom82\/status\/187767300802363392\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\">@Thom82<\/a>\u00a0tweeted a\u00a0photograph of a parking space at Ikea. \u00a0By &#8220;family friendly,&#8221; I assume they mean people with kids. \u00a0By coupling the phrase with the image, however, it defines the family as a heterosexual, nuclear one with 2.0 children. \u00a0People without kids? Not a family. Single people with kids? Not a family. Best friends who support each other? Not a family. \u00a0Sorry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/26\/us\/26marry.html\" target=\"_blank\">80% of people in the U.S. who aren&#8217;t married with kids<\/a>, you&#8217;re not a family.<\/p>\n<p>But seriously. It&#8217;s not a <em>big<\/em> deal, all things considered. But, when you add it to all the other little reminders, it leaves little doubt as to whose families really count.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/15.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-46081\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/15-500x666.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/15-500x666.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/15.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apropo of tax time, see also <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/04\/14\/turbotax-maps-out-my-conventional-future\/\">Turbo Tax Maps Out My Conventional Future<\/a>, and these humorous take down of the idea of <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/05\/18\/in-honor-of-california-ruling-that-same-sex-couples-have-a-constitutional-right-to-marriage\/\">&#8220;traditional&#8221; marriage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@Thom82\u00a0tweeted a\u00a0photograph of a parking space at Ikea. \u00a0By &#8220;family friendly,&#8221; I assume they mean people with kids. \u00a0By coupling the phrase with the image, however, it defines the family as a heterosexual, nuclear one with 2.0 children. \u00a0People without kids? Not a family. Single people with kids? Not a family. Best friends who support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23384,272,23622],"class_list":["post-46080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-marriagefamily","tag-social-construction-symbols"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46080"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58398,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46080\/revisions\/58398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}