My story

J – My guest today is Adrian Mitchell, whose book Who we are and what we want on the subject of family relationships has been at the top of many best-seller lists for the most part ofthis year. Adrian, I know you’ve been lecturing in sociology for over 20 years. So, was the book an inevitable consequence of that?

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J – And I believe that you’ve also put your experience as a counsellor to good use in the book.

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J – your book, you do take pains, I notice, to avoid presenting yourself as the ideal husband. I mean, you’re not pretending to have all the solutions.

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J – Yes, but it’s a notion that seems popular on daytime television. Um, in the book, you thank your children in the acknowledgements, but after that, there’s no further mention of them. Did you make a conscious decision to exclude them?

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J – A chapter I found particularly interesting was the one on how the media reports on social issues. You refer to the way it portrays single parents, single mothers in particular.

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