"The Shelter of Each Other" by Mary Pipher

Critical Review of a Boring Reading
"Has American culture during the 1990s been too difficult for many families to handle?" In The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding our Families, author Mary Pipher argues yes, American culture during the 1990s has been too difficult for many families to handle. Pipher tries to sympathize with families' effort to survive a difficult era and connects family problems to larger cultural forces. She expresses that the loss of old-fashioned communities is due to the rise of an electronic community and a consumer mentality, and the influence of popular psychology. Pipher mentions many good arguments but not all are true. There are still many families today who sit down and have dinner together, and who communicate with one another. For instance, my family would be called old-fashioned, we all communicate very well, we know the names of our neighbors, and we have family dinners 5-7 times a week.
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