Extended Families Today

Working in groups of 3 or 4, make a list of the members of your extended family – grandparents, aunts, cousins etc. How far away from you do they live? How often do you see them? What kind of contact do you have with them? Have they helped each other at times of...

Comparing Extended Families

Working in pairs, refer to Box 5 on page 40 where you will find Michael Anderson’s study of mid-19th century Preston and Tamara Hareven’s study of French Canadian migrants in the American textile industry, from 1880 to 1930. Both studies stressed the importance of the...