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    How We Live Now: Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century
    How We Live Now: Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century
    How We Live Now: Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century
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    How We Live Now: Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century

    By Bella Depaulo

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    A close-up examination and exploration, How We Live Now challenges our old concepts of what it means to be a family and have a home, opening the door to the many diverse and thriving experiments of living in twenty-first century America.

    Across America and around the world, in cities and suburbs and small towns, people from all walks of life are redefining our “lifespaces”—the way we live and who we live with. The traditional nuclear family in their single-family home on a suburban lot has lost its place of prominence in contemporary life. Today, Americans have more choices than ever before in creating new ways to live and meet their personal needs and desires.

    Social scientist, researcher, and writer Bella DePaulo has traveled across America to interview people experimenting with the paradigm of how we live. In How We Live Now, she explores everything from multi-generational homes to cohousing communities where one’s “family” is made up of friends and neighbors to couples “living apart together” to single-living, and ultimately uncovers a pioneering landscape for living that throws the old blueprint out the window.

    Through personal interviews and stories, media accounts, and in-depth research, How We Live Now explores thriving lifespaces, and offers the reader choices that are freer, more diverse, and more attuned to our modern needs for the twenty-first century and beyond.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtria Books/Beyond Words
    Release dateAug 25, 2015
    ISBN9781476763002
    How We Live Now: Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century
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    Bella Depaulo

    Bella DePaulo, PhD, is a psychologist and the author of Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After. Her research and writing have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many other outlets, and she blogs at Psychology Today, Psych Central, and Huffington Post. DePaulo is currently a visiting professor of psychology at UC Santa Barbara in California.

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      In the 1970's, when I was 17 years old, I came out as a lesbian. This really upended my vision of my future which always included marriage and children. Unlike now, that did not seem possible so I began to shift my sense of how I would live as an adult. I lived collectively, singularly, with a roommate and in several other types of housing situations that I never even imagined. As Bella DePaulo describes in her engaging and original book, many more adults are choosing to live in these formerly "unimaginable" configurations as the numbers of traditional nuclear family has shrunk and in some ways lost its luster. Adults are exploring exciting new possibilities as they seek to establish and find ways to grow up, grow old and stay grounded in homes that feel right for them. This book is full of stories. They level of detail in them was fantastic as we learned how individuals and families made their situations work. . Everybody was enthusiastic and though, in many ways, delightful to read, did not feel true to life. Living together means there will be conflict and a fair amount of it. Many of the collectives I knew broke apart, people got hurt and it was hard (I was lucky. I have loved all of my collective experiences) and I think it is important to include this so that we know is is just part of the experience too. Additionally I did not think there was enough in the book about the impact of race, class, gentrification and economics in how people came to make the choices they did. Overall, however, an important book that was fun to read and teaches us so much about how we are living differently from our parents and what possibilities there will be for the generations to come.Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to review this book for an honest opinion.

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