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New Family Values

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Is There a Difference Between Vertical and Horizontal Identity?

You have spent decades writing about identity, parenting and family dynamics. In Far From the Tree you interview parents who are navigating having a child who is different from them. You introduce us to terminology that I find incredibly useful - this idea of vertical and horizontal identities. Most people have some amount of horizontal identity but there are substantial number for whom thoseizontal identities are their primary identities.

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