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Annotated Bibliography
Families: Beyond the Nuclear Ideal. London, UK ; New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 2012.
This book explains how the ideal nuclear family has changed and how these
alternative types of relationships have changed the ways families are viewed although
they have the ideal views of a nuclear family although they are not accepted as a nuclear
family. I found this on this book on the one search through CSUN Oviatt Library. I
searched for family and looked through the books. It is a science ethics and society
book that has various examples of different types of families which made it trustworthy.
This book will be useful in my essay because it provides a great deal of information about
different types of families and situations in the families rather than a nuclear family
which is seen in The Giver.
Klever, Phillip. "Multigenerational Relationships and Nuclear Family Functioning." The
American Journal of Family Therapy, 43.4 (2015): 339-351.
This article discusses how the more a nuclear family tries to connect through
emotional contact with different generations the more orderly and healthy the lives of the
generations will be. I found this on this article on the one search through CSUN Oviatt
Library. I searched for nuclear family and looked through the articles and found this
one. I found it to be trust worthy because it was published for The American Journal of
Family Therapy. This article will help me in my essay because it shows how emotional
contact helps a nuclear family stay together, this is something that doesnt happen in The
Giver. Although The Giver is the perfect example of a nuclear family that works in the
book, the family doesnt stay together; they all move on and forget about once being a
family and once having a mother, father, sister, or brother.
Lowry, Lois. The Giver. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.

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Nelson, Eric E, and Jaak Panksepp. "Brain Substrates of InfantMother Attachment:
Contributions of Opioids, Oxytocin, and Norepinephrine."Neuroscience and
Biobehavioral Reviews, 22.3 (1998): 437-452.
This article discusses how oxytocin created a bond between mother and child and
how it goes on through life. I found this on this article on the one search through CSUN
Oviatt Library. I searched for what is oxytocin between a mother and offspring and
looked through the articles and found this one. I found it to be trust worthy because it is a
peer reviewed journal article. This article will help me in my essay because it shows how
strong oxytocin can be if a child isnt immediately taken from their mother such as the
children in The Giver.
Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Making Babies, Making Families: What Matters Most in an Age of
Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy, Adoption, and Same-sex and Unwed Parents.
Boston: Beacon Press, 2001.
This book explains how a family should be with one another and what changes
that families are going through. I found this on this book on the one search through
CSUN Oviatt Library. I searched for family and looked through the books. It is a book
that has various examples of different types of families that get children through different
situations which made it trustworthy. This book will be useful in my essay it will help me
give examples of what a family with love and affection really should be like rather than a
family in The Giver.
Thomese, G.C.F, A.C Liefbroer, R Kaptijn, and van, T.G Tilburg. "How Grandparents Matter.
Support for the Cooperative Breeding Hypothesis in a Contemporary Dutch
Population."Human Nature : An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective, 21.4 (2010):
393-405.
This article explains Grandparents are important to families and how children
would benefit from them being around rather that not knowing who they are and never

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talking about them like in The Giver. I found this on this book on the one search through
CSUN Oviatt Library. I searched for Grandparents Matter and looked through the
books. It is an article that can help explain the importance of extended family which
made it trustworthy. This book will be useful in my essay because it provides a great deal
of information about different types of families and situations in the families rather than a
nuclear family which is seen in The Giver.