Family Counterculture Ellen Goodman Summary

Culture is culture for a reason. Ellen Goodman argues in “Family Counterculture” that parents need to counter the culture of today, but major shifts are happening in the American landscape, and it isn’t all about which sneakers are the most popular or pushing junk food onto kids. Culture today also echoes the ideas, values, and morals of the American people, and although not all ideas, values, and morals should be accepted by children, not all of them should be censored by worried parents. Children should be given nearly-unlimited access to the culture of today, and parents should wait on the sidelines to answer questions and offer up their own views, but not to force their children to accept the “truth” or “values” that they were raised to