At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

Ehrenreich has two children. She divorced Stevenson in 1993. In 1983 Barbara Ehrenreich married Gary Stevenson a union organizer for the Teamsters.

She is a widely-read and award-winning columnist and essayist and author of 21 books. During the 1980s and early 1990s Barbara Ehrenreich was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. Barbara Ehrenreich (pron.