SLIS Connecting Volume 4 | Issue 1 Article 6 2015 Does Family Matter: The aP rental Roles of Young Adult Media Antoinette Giamalva MLIS Delta State University Follow this and additional works at: http://aquila.usm.edu/slisconnecting Part of the Archival Science Commons, Collection Development and Management Commons, Information Literacy Commons, Scholarly Communication Commons, and the Scholarly Publishing Commons Recommended Citation Giamalva, Antoinette MLIS (2015) "Does Family Matter: The aP rental Roles of Young Adult Media," SLIS Connecting: Vol. 4: Iss. 1, Article 6. DOI: 10.18785/slis.0401.06 Available at: http://aquila.usm.edu/slisconnecting/vol4/iss1/6 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in SLIS Connecting by an authorized administrator of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Does Family Matter: The Parental Roles of Young Adult Media By Antoinette Giamalva Access Services Librarian, Delta State University Introduction evaluate what family means to them; for many it is a In young adult media there are different roles that time of drawing away, but for others it is a time of parents of the main characters symbolize. The role of clinging to those lifelong relationships” (p. 21). The parental figures can vary in their original conception four presences that will be researched and discussed and throughout media forms. Readers and viewers are: a healthy parental presence, a lack of parental have their opinions about how parental figures presence, a broken parental presence, and a representation should be characterized.