CLN: Serve the real community, not a fictional one
On April 16th, the Community Library Network (CLN) trustees passed a resolution declaring the period between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day as “Traditional Family Values Month.” Their stated goal is to highlight the “alarming” decline of the traditional American family.
This resolution feels like a nostalgic retreat to a “Leave It to Beaver” era — an idealized version of suburban life that ignores our modern reality. By the trustees’ own cited statistics, only 17.8% of U.S. households fit the “traditional nuclear family” mold. This begs a critical question: What about the remaining 82.2% of our community?
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