Latest Book - 2nd Edition (with new cover)
The Failure of the Nuclear Family. Capitalism, Love and the State
available in German since 2017
translated to Italian in 2021
forthcoming in English
Mariam Irene Tazi-Preve starts by describing the distress caused by the nuclear family and asks: Can the romantic couple really be the basis of a whole societal
order? The book’s concern is it to show the historical and ideological causes of the nuclear family’s dilemma instead of searching for an individual failure. The author picks up all the relevant
topics in a competent manner: the motherhood drama, the recent debate on reconciliation of job and family, and the new father debate. She analyses politics and its interest in the “smallest cell
of state” and she shows how the economic system uses the nuclear family as its basis and brings it simultaneously at the brink of collapse. The conclusions from these discrepancies lead towards
the illustration of alternative family forms which other societies are living in.
press comment
“…your (new) book is more exciting than a thriller. (…) it is not only interesting but also concerns me. And opens my eyes.”
-Sibylle Stillhart, Journalist and author
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Mothers in Distress. And what does that have to do with the economy?
Women who have children and earn their money through paid work have reached the limits of what they are able to bear. All the children, including teenagers, are now at home. The older ones aren’t allowed to get together, the younger are left staring at barricaded playgrounds. According to recent news reports it will be the middle of May, before schools start to reopen – even at a limited capacity. That means for months mothers are the sole entertainers of small children and are also responsible for homeschooling the older children...
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