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* On the front cover: A book about all kinds of belonging.

Summary from the Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Excerpts:

A Note to Parents, Teachers and Other Grown-Up Friends
by Letty Cottin Pogrebin (pp. 8-9)

“…Many forces in our society recognize only one ‘legitimate’ family structure and only one correct way of living together as a household. Society is always judging families to see if they conform to an ideal standard and making them feel bad if they don’t.”

“Unfortunately, the people who say and think such things are often allowed to define family issues for the rest of us.”

“Since a child’s family may be as vital to his or her basic identity as gender or color, it makes sense that Free To Be…A Family should challenge family stereotypes…”

Clearly, this is a book promoting acceptance and tolerance. One song styled “Something for Everyone” includes a picture of a building with windows showing families on page 140. In one of the windows is a picture of a “family” with two men [fathers] and a boy [son].

Marlo Thomas is an actress and an activist feminist who helped to establish the Ms. Foundation in the early 70s. This organization believes in equality regardless gender and sexual orientation (OFSA emphasis added).

Research by M. Lyn