Family Life Decisions

friends
Listen nowDownload file
Embed player
Original Air Date: 
December 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.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge
Audio

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

To The Best Of Our Knowledge
Audio

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

To The Best Of Our Knowledge
Audio

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

To The Best Of Our Knowledge
Audio

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.

Show Details 📻
Last modified: 
August 02, 2024