All Our Kin by Carol B. Stack

Author:Carol B. Stack [CAROL STACK]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2012-04-14T00:00:00+00:00

Throughout the trip Ethel shouted at, beat, and teased the children. Her sisters enjoyed the train ride and generally ignored the children. But Ethel’s rights regarding each of her sister’s children are not equivalent. From time to time, Ethel helped Wilma raise her children, including Georgia. Ethel has cared for or lived with Georgia’s children for the past five years. Her rights in Wilma’s and Georgia’s children are recognized by both the mothers and the children. During the train ride, in the presence of her sisters and her niece, Ethel demonstrated her right to discipline the children of these kin. Likewise, the children observed the authority Ethel had over them.

On the other hand, Ethel’s sister Ann had been married and was living fairly well. Ann was not an active participant in the domestic network of the sisters: she did not participate in the daily flow of exchanges among the sisters, and more often than not, Ann avoided exchanges of services which might obligate her to her sisters. Ann’s daughters are self-supporting adults. It is quite unlikely that Ethel, Wilma, or Georgia would be expected or be required to raise Ann’s granddaughters. In fact, Ann and her daughters consider themselves “better” than Ethel and Wilma. Usually Ann does not even allow her granddaughters to play with Wilma’s children except for short periods of time. Rights over children come into conflict indicating who is excluded from parental rights in children. The third scene provides an example of who is not eligible to assume parental behavior patterns.

Vilda, Ann’s daughter and Ethel’s niece, had the opportunity to get a job she wanted. But she had to begin work immediately. Ann was working and Vilda had difficulty finding someone to care for her daughter Betty, who was four years old. She asked her cousin Georgia to take care of her daughter during the day and offered to pay her ten dollars a week.

SCENE THREE

Betty cried and put up a fuss at breakfast because she didn’t want her mother to go to work, and she didn’t want to stay at her Aunt Georgia’s house. Betty said that Georgia beat her and yelled at her. Vilda and her mother, Ann, took the child to Georgia’s house together that morning. They told Georgia that they didn’t want her to yell or lay a hand on Betty.

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