THE TRADITIONAL FAMILY

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Born in 1944 to an American Christian family with Irish, German and French Huguenot ancestry, the author grew up in Midwest America. She has been a natural eye-witness to the sweeping Western social and cultural changes that have unfolded in the West during the past seventy years: the Hippi movement, sexual revolution and widespread experimentation with psychedelic drugs like LSD in the 60’s; the Feminist movement which re-emerged in the 70’s; the normalization of homosexuality and lesbianism which resulted in the legalization of same-sex marriage; and currently the drive to impose on society the acceptance of trans-gender ideology. The trajectory of the author’s life changed dramatically when she married a Turkish student she had met at Ohio State University, where she majored in English literature and language and graduated with a degree in Arts and Sciences. Taking on a new cultural and religious identity after converting to Islam, the author legally changed her name to Asl? Safiye Sancar. She moved to Turkey in 1976 with her family and has been living in Turkey ever since. Asl? Sancar has been intermittently researching, writing about and speaking on the subject of family and women for almost forty years. This journey began in 1985 when she began writing articles for the newly published Kad?n ve Aile (Women and Family) magazine. In 1988 Sancar served as Chief Editor for the magazine and continued writing articles until the magazine closed in 1996. Written on behalf of the International 1994 Year of the Family, the author’s first book on the family, Osmanl? Toplumunda Kad?n ve Aile (Women and Family in Ottoman Society), was reprinted in 1999. A very much enlarged and heavily illustrated version of this book was written and published in English in 2008, at which time in America it was awarded the 2008 Benjamin Franklin Award in the category of history and politics. This book, Ottoman Women: Myth and Reality, was later translated and published in Turkish, Arabic, Russian, Spanish and French. Drawing on her research for the Ottoman family, Sancar wrote and had published a novel on this subject, Harem: A Journey of Love, in 2010. The author was invited to make a presentation in the Family Forum of the Third National Cultural Council held in March, 2017. Her latest work is this book, THE TRADITIONAL FAMILY: Last Exit before the Bridge of No Return, which examines the worldwide demise of the traditional family.