Casa Family Day

President George W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush are featured in new public service announcements for Casa Family Day, a group that advocates the educational and public health benefits of families sitting down and sharing the evening meal together.  Although many American social scientists see a correlation between good parent-child communication or healthy life habits and having a strong family dinner ritual, not all of them are convinced that there is the causal connection that this campaign seems to imply.  Feminists and members of non-traditional families may also see a certain amount of normative sexism in the campaign, particularly in the spot with the Chief Executive, which assumes that mothers necessarily do the cooking at the family meal.

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