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Gracia Sánchez has always been part of a large family. The oldest of eight siblings, she is now a mother of four, from José Maria, 13, to Quique, 15 months. "We're not standard," she says with a laugh, sitting in her central Madrid living room as her two middle ones, Jacobo, 9, and Gracita, 7, carry in a plate of home-baked cookies. "People at work say, 'There's no way you have four kids!' " Her half-day job as a youth counselor allows her to drop off the kids at school and pick them...
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...
...decades, 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...
...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 around the rest of Shanghai - trips about which his mother later claimed to know nothing. Arm's-length parenting was common in this social set, writes Ballard, with children often treated as "an appendage to their parents, somewhere between the servants and an obedient Labrador." He claims these were happy days, yet time and again he mourns, without rancor, the lack of parental...
...their preaching before finally relenting.Samantha G. Barnard ’09 was also approached in the Science Center by two people claiming to need student input for a class survey. “They stopped me and asked if I had heard of the gospel that mentioned God the Mother. They asked if I read the Bible, and if I believed in it. When I said no, that I’m not Christian, they started trying to make a case for why I should believe in the Bible,” she recalls. SIMPLY NOT PROFESSIONALReligion professor Peter...