10 Feb 2019

Myths around family bonding

From Sunday Morning, 9:41 am on 10 February 2019
The Brady Bunch

Florence Henderson, centre, in her role as Carol Brady on the popular television show The Brady Bunch Photo: AFP

A new book by three professors tells us your family won't become The Waltons by sitting around the dinner table. Anthropologists and sociologists at three U.S. universities, Sarah Bowen, Joslyn Brenton, and Sinikka Elliott have written Pressure Cooker: The full title is Pressure Cooker: Why Home Cooking Won't Solve Our Problems and What We Can Do About It.