Family Life Decisions

Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives
12.25.2011
(was 12.05.2010)

Everyone knows you can choose your friends, but not your family.  Well, maybe that used to be true, but today’s families are a lot more flexible about defining themselves.  In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge we’ll hear NPR’s Scott Simon rhapsodize about his two adopted daughters from China.  And we’ll learn how it takes a whole family to fight one member’s anorexia.

  1. Annie Murphy Paul on The 9 Months of Pregnancy

    Annie Murphy Paul talks with Jim Fleming about her research into the field of fetal development. As if pregnancy wasn’t scary enough!

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  2. Harriet Brown on a Family's Struggle with Anorexia

    Harriet Brown had a smart, happy daughter who was stricken in adolescence by anorexia.

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  3. Jonah Lehrer on "How We Decide"

    What exactly happens in the brain when you “decide” to do something?

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  4. Scott Simon on Adoption

    Scott Simon, host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday, and his wife have adopted two baby girls from China.  Simon tells Anne Strainchamps why he and his wife are such fans of adoption.

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