With other researchers, he has surveyed or interviewed 17,000 people in 27 countries. One colleague, Verna Weber, focused on 11 strong families in the black South African township of Soweto over two years during the apartheid era in the early 80s. When you're dying of cancer like my dad, it wasn't his boss that came to the hospital, it was his family. We have the intelligence and creativity as human beings to create good families. We can do it.
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