Stephanie Coontz

Stephanie Coontz teaches history and family studies at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash. She is the author of "The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap" and "The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America's Changing Families," and the editor, with Maya Parson and Gabrielle Raley, of "American Families: A Multicultural Reader."