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I am an Associate Professor in the UCSF School of
Nursing.
I'm the Associate Director of the Center
for California Health Workforce Studies at UCSF.
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Petris Center
on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare
I teach in the Nursing Administration program in the
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"Part of the irony of this whole family values debate that the
Republicans introduced in August is that America
is profoundly *anti*-family. Our parents are the people who left the village --
whether it was Italy
or Ireland or Mexico
-- who left grandmother at her window and said, "We will be back,"
but we didn't go back. Americans are all these people who leave Cleveland,
Ohio, and don't see their relatives except
maybe at Christmas. Americans are always the ones who wonder, if you're 28
years old, why are you still living at home? America
was always formed *against* the idea of fatherhood, against the inevitability
of family: that I will become my own man, that I will stand on my own two legs.
Who you are -- your family name, where you come from -- is nowhere near as
important as what your expectations are for your own life.
"The notion that we represent family values in America
is ludicrous. Every country in the world knows that if your children go to
American you will lose them. Every mother in East LA
knows that if her children become too American, she will lose them, too -- that
they will end up like Thomas Jefferson on a skateboard."
-- Mexican-American commentator Richard Rodriguez
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours."
--R. Bach