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...this fragmented land, the narrator must cope with his fragmented household. "So broken was my father's family," he claims, "that it felt to me like a catastrophe you could live with only if you kept it quiet," but native childish curiosity drives him to push for answers. His father's family, with its tragic breakup and its missing brother, who may or may not have been an IRA hero, holds a score of riddles, and his mother's, which is mysteriously bound to his father's by more than their marriage, is just as puzzling. No adult will speak...
...shaping her homeland's future. But she has other responsibilities as well. Though she grew up as part of the Yoruba elite, her family's mansion filled with servants and visitors, she was effectively orphaned after her mother's death. Now, having graduated from Harvard, she heads a household of five in a suburb near the U.S. capital. Her two teenage sisters are in college, and she sends her two younger brothers to public schools. With most of her family's assets frozen, she works full time to support them...
...Submitting graciously" to their husbands' leadership may not be conventional wisdom on marriage among American women, but it's a trend on the rise, says TIME correspondent Richard Ostling. The Southern Baptist Convention yesterday codified male leadership of the household in its declaration on the family, and a consensus among the nation's largest Protestant denomination can't be viewed simply as the triumph of conservative elements: "The convention is a very important, often underestimated force in American life," says Ostling. "This statement and the mood it expresses in response to the moral confusion of the wider culture are going...
...Catholic Church four years ago adopted a statement on marriage that read, in part, "mutual submission -- not dominance by either partner -- is the key to genuine joy." But the Baptists were unambiguous in their disdain for shared household authority, overwhelmingly rejecting a "mutual submission" amendment. So while culture wars rage outside, the Southern Baptist male can take comfort in the knowledge that his home, by church decree, is once again his castle...
James Collins is TIME's TV critic. His household includes two Kermits and an Elmo...