The Way We Really Are
The Way We Realy Are Our guests for a special 1 1/2 hour edition of Living Room are Nation magazine publisher Victor Navasky, Stephanie Coontz, author of The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families; Basic Books, 1998 and, in the second hour, Michael Ratner, an attorney with Center for Constitutional Rights. According to Coontz: we're in a time of negotiation in America about which secrets need to be made public and which ought to be protected. For instance secretss that should be descussed--domestic violence, pedophilia privacy rights that should be defended--sexual orientation, medical records political hypocrisy: The same representatives who voted for the communications decency act also voted to put the Starr report on the Internet where it could be viewed by children