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Voices In Time

1924 | Australia

State Intervention

An aboriginal mother has her baby taken away.More

Voices In Time

1899 | Atlanta

Dawn of Mourning

W.E.B. Du Bois on the passing of his firstborn son.More

Voices In Time

1759 | Glasgow

Parental Love

Adam Smith’s love of his children.More

Voices In Time

1811 | Norland Park

Between Sisters

Jane Austen gives an honest opinion.More

Voices In Time

c. 1920 | Missoula, MT

Brotherly Love

Norman Maclean fights his brother.More

Voices In Time

c. 1938 | New York City

Enabling a Divorce

Mary McCarthy unwittingly aids a separation.More

Voices In Time

2002 | Los Angeles

Last Wish

Larry David misses a death in the family.More

Voices In Time

1899 | Vienna

Setting the Record Straight

Sigmund Freud explains the Oedipus complex.More

Voices In Time

c. 1800 BC | Mari

Why Can’t You Be More Like Your Brother?

An Assyrian favorite son.More

Voices In Time

c. 40 | Rome

Not Your Average Family

The odd dynamics of the Caligula household.More

Voices In Time

8 | Rome

Wait for It

A sister’s love for her brother.More

Voices In Time

c. 1790 | Hungjiang

Parent Trap

Chinese style family dysfunction.More

Voices In Time

c. 1835 | New York City

Henry James Settles an Argument

Father knows best when it comes to marriage.More

Voices In Time

431 BC | Corinth

Mother’s Grief

Facing the most terrible grief of all.More

Voices In Time

c. 1912 | Surrey

Meeting the Birds and the Bees

J.R. Ackerley’s sex education.More

Voices In Time

1884 | London

An Alternative Reality

Friedrich Engels challenges the economic foundations of monogamy.More

Voices In Time

c. 425 | China

Just Disappointed

Failing to meet your parents’ expectations.More

Voices In Time

1858 | Savannah

Parting Words

“I remain your truly husband until death.”More

Voices In Time

1393 | France

Ignorance Is Bliss

A husband forgives his wife’s indiscretions.More

Voices In Time

c. 170 | Athens

Paternity Test

An awkward meeting of Hermes and his love child.More

Voices In Time

c. 1185 | Egypt

Root and Branch

Moses Maimonides on inculcating chastity into our hearts.More

Voices In Time

1840 | Paris

Family Politics

“Democracy loosens social ties, but it draws the ties of nature more tight.”More

Voices In Time

c. 160 BC | Rome

Doting Uncle

The difference between a father and a tyrant.More

Voices In Time

1850 | Salem

Nathaniel Hawthorne Digs Up His Roots

Family trees cannot flourish for long in the same worn out soil.More

Voices In Time

c. 1837 | London

That Is the Question

Darwin weighs the pros and cons of married life.More

Voices In Time

1623 | England

Disinheritance

For Cordelia, nothing comes from nothing.More

Voices In Time

1928 | Arizona

Why Not Be Jubilant?

Jackson Pollock’s father divulges the secret of success.More

Voices In Time

1129 | Syria

Battle Scars

Finding one’s brother on the battlefield.More

Voices In Time

1917 | Dorchester

Genetics

Thomas Hardy carries on his family’s face.More

Voices In Time

1521 | Florence

Reparations

Michelangelo’s daddy issues.More

Voices In Time

1978 | Jonestown

Father Knows Best

A family that forms a cult together...More

Voices In Time

1916 | Chicago

Second Thoughts

Carl Sandburg at the nadir of a marriage.More

Voices In Time

1733 | Japan

Home Rule

A Japanese guide for building the perfect wife.More

Voices In Time

1804 | Paris

Man of the House

The Napoleonic Code reinforces the patriarchy.More

Voices In Time

1967 | San Quentin, CA

I Love You, but I Must Be Frank

“I won’t be a good boy ever.”More

Voices In Time

1920 | Houghton

The Eliot Way

T.S. Eliot struggles against his family’s temperament.More

Voices In Time

1858 | London

Autopsy Report

Charles Dickens on being unhappily married.More

Voices In Time

c. 700 BC | Boeotia

Preemptive Strike

Kronos tries to eat his offspring.More

Voices In Time

1770 | Vienna

Advice to the Once and Future Queen

“A wife should be submissive in everything to her husband.”More

Voices In Time

c. 378 BC | Athens

Good Breeding

Socrates outlines a sensible reproduction strategy.More

Voices In Time

1625 | London

Hostage Situation

Francis Bacon compares marriage with the single life.More

Voices In Time

c. 51 BC | Rome

When in Gaul

Julius Caesar on harsh Gallic child rearing techniques.More

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