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...father, retired Brigadier General José María Sánchez de Toca, 66, says he and his wife tried to instill in their eight children the same family values they'd learned from their own parents. "We taught them to work hard," he says, and also gave them "a sense of austerity. Children should not be given everything they ask for. In my day our parents didn't give in to us." Rigid discipline and corporal punishment were common, he recalls, both at home and at school, and women's roles were largely limited to the family. Though...
Gracia Sánchez doesn't stray far from her father's thinking, but says the changes in Spain since her childhood are "mostly for the better." As a devout Catholic, however, she opposes the Zapatero revolution. "We've gone a step farther than was requested," she says. "Gay marriage and adoption wasn't a response to a demand from the people. It was a way to create a fracture in society; a coup de théâtre, to show how modern and advanced [the Socialists] were." Her husband Enrique Trabado, a lawyer for a major construction firm, provides...
Serafin Feraldos, a 25-year-old law student from Valdemoro, wonders if his recent breakup with his Seville girlfriend was due to the fact that he still lived with his mother and father. "I love my parents, I love being taken care of," he says. "But it's hard to have intimacy like this. If you're a young person in Spain, it's difficult to start your own life...
...mostly from North Africa. Moroccan-born Abdul Aziz, 42, is likewise skeptical of gay marriage, and the ease with which many native Spaniards jettison the traditional family unit. "There are so many people not married, with no children. For me, this is not life. Life should be a mother, father, children," says the unemployed construction worker and father of two. He says Islam is a regular part of his life, even as he becomes more and more Catalan: "It helps to preserve the traditions. It is not a good thing if you lose roots. Religion remains a constant through...
Ballard's tenuous relationship with his parents explains why he excluded them from Empire of the Sun. His father, who left England in 1929 to run a cotton factory, along with his wife and hundreds of other Brits, had a high old time of it in Shanghai's free-trade, hard-boozing International Settlement. For the young Ballard, life before the war was giddy and privileged, too - a succession of gymkhanas, parties and inexhaustible supplies of American comics. But it was all colored by a guilt-edged curiosity at the poverty and brutality he saw on his frequent bike rides...