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Navigating Mixed Families

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February 10, 2014

 

 

In this episode of the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC (12/19/2013), guests and callers talk about navigating mixed families and their definition of mixed is broad: mixed race, mixed faith, mixed politics, mixed income, mixed ability, mixed diet...

Michele Norris, who leads the The Race Card Project, shared this six-word thought from a mixed-race family: My son's not half - he's double.

Naomi Schaefer Riley, author of 'Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Marriage is Transforming America (Oxford University Press, 2013), says that Jewish people have the highest rate of marrying outside their faith.

Janna Malamud Smith talks with many callers who describe the challenges of income inequality within families.

and more...

Listen to the full episode here.