Author Advises Families To Re-instill Values
Submitted on April 6, 1999 - 12:00am.
Eboni Davis - Spring 1999
WASHINGTON _ When she and some friends were talking about their families, recalls Joyce A. Ladner, they realized that – despite their best intentions – they had not passed on to their children something they had inherited from their own parents.
"My mother talked a lot about values," as Ladner put it in a recent interview. "How you lived your life was very important to her." But for her generation, too much of that sense of values, she says, has been lost. So, Ladner was inspired to write a book that would serve as a timeless guide on rebuilding families.
Ladner, a long-time educator and now a scholar of family issues, has consolidated her life's experiences and her concerns about what's happening to African American families in a book called "The Ties That Bind: Timeless Values For African American Families." The book was published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
"My mother talked a lot about values," as Ladner put it in a recent interview. "How you lived your life was very important to her." But for her generation, too much of that sense of values, she says, has been lost. So, Ladner was inspired to write a book that would serve as a timeless guide on rebuilding families.
Ladner, a long-time educator and now a scholar of family issues, has consolidated her life's experiences and her concerns about what's happening to African American families in a book called "The Ties That Bind: Timeless Values For African American Families." The book was published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
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