| Show TT What Happened The GenerahonGapr for now and tho 8tat oootory The nation's ‘‘family historymaUocmbestuAedtiuvtlhe changes in januty dynamics In the 1960s die generation gyi threatened to tear apart America's JandBes Does HisdBt 2b A find out Mark Clements Research siaveyed 1234 parents nw age 45 with adult children and 1154 adult childrenoverage 25 with at lean one living parent The nesula may surprise you History ditlfiHb IXIWIMR tlfa () r:i & story— 4nd my family story—started making sense There is a wealth of infbnnation on family history out there for everyone to use" At fe National Archives WUion-Rq- i a university administrator and author of Alack Indian Genealogy Zuautft (Heritage BooksX found records that showed had been bom her into slavery the daughter of a black woman and a Choctaw man “When she wu great-grandmot- O 3" says Walton-Ra- By Mark Cleme ANGELA 47 a photo or Walton aigMor i a Wave and a (ptotorad) hoM a bilingual and ral life speakdSskixofl wffE er black Baptist min- ister" re- search led her to a clearer understanding of herself and her fiunily’s place in history “Most people don’t know that many Indian tribes owned slaves and that the two cultures are connected in many ways that have been forgotten or a frequent speaker at African-Americgenealogy conferences “Although I have a family connection to this story it’s also ignored" says Walton-Ra- ji an an important cbrpter of American history uid I want to help bring attention to it” place Sal In history” Ro- mano's interest in his family's past began with the cd-orf- til stories his mother continued THE ROMANOS M wttn Mo mo Steffi MX Steffi hoMo ms MP TMMDf IFOM aaAiu Iswtyo Mi MM Mb fBmHjs opontoC a Wob oitothot1 Cotallo — a— A— MaM fl aA 19 RVV T9Nh WHf IV vONPNR MHIfy MIR llaa Sol HSaaMAA OT PMVNPM f' FAMLYTES Overall family ties are strong say both parents and adult chHdran o Adult children (88) and paronts (84) ara aatisfled with how often they oommunicato with one another o Una In 10 adult childran (90) and parents (95) do not feel that tho "Family values” endure and may bo oven stronger hi tho younger generation Almost all adult childran (81) and parents (88) say marriage is a commitment for Ufa More children (88) than parents (74) say family is more important than career the Indian ways but she married a Walton-Raji- 's v WHAT’S MPORTAIfT ing English and Choctaw She lived til die inherited an old family Bible containing stories from the Choctaw Nation that Uton-Ra- ji began to undentand her own connection to that history “I remember my father telling me about how my knew ah the old Choctaw ways" says Wilton-Ra- ji 47 of Catonsville Md "Tb me she wu a sweet old lady who made me sassafras tea And it wasn’t till I started making use of records at the National Archives in Washington DC that my disappeared Almost nine In 10 (93 of parents and 93 of adult children) rate their retationoNp with the : other generation an good or exeel lent" Hero are some other key ftndbigac other generation interferes In their Rvea Only 1B of childran complain about parental nagging While 63 of adult children say they would hava their healthy parents Iva with them Just 80 of parents would chooea to move in with their kids ji “her family became freedmen and lived IV Today the rift between the generations has aiau — one Six to 10 of ail respondents dtaapprovo of abortion o Seven in 10 members of both generations say a tamrinagy M paroon should havo tho right to refuse What they disagree out Signifloantly moro parents than adult cNIdron disapprove of premarital oohabitation same-so- x ralatlonahlpa and artificial Insemination rftAbheet three In tour parents (78) aay they eMkJraa to many within tho same reoe wfiiirfsi omy S3 of chlkbwn aharo that view 0 Kara parents (48) than adult children (S8) : wxt their kids to starry within the same religion ££ fetef ttffioro adult childran are taking care of psrextA moro parents are contributing to f "Mr VI O'ti ' V flnanoae sdalt sJdhbsn pay they” glvo money - Sliiln Jpt (Sg ' - — " 9w ClIMrM Vw Neltf i |
