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It's All Relative: A Field Guide to the Modern Family

by Bill Cosby

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With his inimitable brand of wit and humour, bestselling comic legend Bill Cosby is at it once again, but this time he is ready to take on the changing face of the traditional North American family. Todays families arent as simple as they used to bethey are complex configurations of grown children who return to the nest, countless divorces and remarriages, and single parent and blended families, not to mention the multitudes who now choose pets over having children. Now, everyones favourite father tells it like it is as he entertainingly traces the evolution of the North American family. Suddenly on Fathers Day, a kid could give a tie to a sperm bank and a surrogate mother didnt mean a mother who was a judge. Suddenly, kids were under so much parental pressure to excel that even toilet training became a kind of squatty Olympics and mothers were trying to find a way to have flash cards seen in the womb. Suddenly, kids lives were so full of round-the-clock activities planned by their parents that there was no more spontaneityunless, of course, it was scheduled.… (more)
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With his inimitable brand of wit and humour, bestselling comic legend Bill Cosby is at it once again, but this time he is ready to take on the changing face of the traditional North American family. Todays families arent as simple as they used to bethey are complex configurations of grown children who return to the nest, countless divorces and remarriages, and single parent and blended families, not to mention the multitudes who now choose pets over having children. Now, everyones favourite father tells it like it is as he entertainingly traces the evolution of the North American family. Suddenly on Fathers Day, a kid could give a tie to a sperm bank and a surrogate mother didnt mean a mother who was a judge. Suddenly, kids were under so much parental pressure to excel that even toilet training became a kind of squatty Olympics and mothers were trying to find a way to have flash cards seen in the womb. Suddenly, kids lives were so full of round-the-clock activities planned by their parents that there was no more spontaneityunless, of course, it was scheduled.

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