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Jack Harman's statue The Family, which stood at 6th and Granville until 1997, needs a new home — and we’re looking for suggestions
Hardly anybody remembers the old Pacific Press building at 2250 Granville St., a nondescript modern building that was demolished in the late 1990s.
But the statue in front is another matter.
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The Family was a giant sculpture of a father, mother and two children by Jack Harman. One of the children is a babe in his mother’s arms, the other a young boy. And he’s naked, which caused quite a stir when it was unveiled in 1966.
“I am very disgusted with the statue which is in front of your Pacific Press Building,” said a letter to the editor of The Vancouver Sun from “Disgusted” on Aug. 17, 1966.
“I don’t know how such a thing could be allowed to exist. What I would like to know is how parents are supposed to explain this to their children.”
Sun reader Maria Ahrend leaped to the statue’s defence.
“To criticize the statue of nude boy is a shortcoming in education — it is a sickening Puritanism,” she wrote in another letter to the editor on Aug. 22, 1966. “Don’t be such a Puritan, Disgusted Person, you won’t last long in the world.”
In Feb., 1969, Lorne Parton of The Province reported somebody took a hacksaw and “attempted an operation” on the naked boy, but was “scared off three-quarters of the way through” and the statue was repaired.
Eventually the controversy died down and The Family became a local landmark. But it disappeared from 6th and Granville when The Vancouver Sun and Province moved downtown in 1997.
The sculpture was moved to the Sun and Province’s printing plant in Surrey, where it stood until the Kennedy Heights operation was closed in 2015.
For several years it’s been in storage in Surrey, along with an old hot-type printing press. But now it needs a new home, and we’re looking for suggestions. (We’ve already sent out feelers to the PNE and the Museum of Vancouver.)
The sculpture is in three pieces: the father, the boy, and the mother and child. Lying in a storage locker, they look like mummies; albeit mummies with big metal pegs sticking out of their feet, where they used to be attached to a marble base.
“The father of the group stands 12 ft 6 inches high and weighs 1,700 pounds,” said a Sun story the day they were unveiled on July 7, 1966.
“The mother, holding a baby, is 11 feet 6 and weighs 1,600 pounds; the teenage son is 9 feet tall and weighs 600 pounds.”
Lying at the back of the storage shed, it’s hard to understand why the naked boy caused such a stir back in the day. In a sense, the controversy embodies the way Vancouver was changing in the mid-’60s from a relatively conservative city to a much more liberal one.
The Sun and Province’s current editor-in-chief Harold Munro has always felt the meaning of the sculpture was how newspapers “held those in power to account, and spoke for those who couldn’t speak for themselves.”
“You’ve got someone who’s unclothed, so they’re vulnerable. And a mother and a child, so a typical family.”
But Harman’s son Stephen said the naked boy was supposed to represent “a new generation stepping forward, shedding the metaphorical clothing and baggage of the past.”
Harman said his father received $5,000 for The Family, which took 17 months to complete. It was commissioned by The Sun’s then-publisher Stu Keate.
“They hadn’t asked him to do anything in particular, so he decided to do this family sculpture, involving, obviously, the nude boy,” said Stephen Harman, who still runs his father’s foundry in Red Deer, Alta.
“Stu Keate came to the house and saw the finished clay. Actually it was sculpted in plaster, which was unusual. He sculpted it in plaster, had bought all the mould-making material, and cast it himself in our foundry in North Van.
“Stu Keate looked at it, and knew it was going to be controversial. And he said ‘Well Jack, I think you know what to do, I’m going to leave it in your competent hands.’
“He was very subtle, he didn’t (come out and) say he wanted the boy clothed. But my dad didn’t get that message and carried on.”
Keate came back a few months later “expecting (the boy) to be clothed, but he was still nude.” The sculpture was put on hold for a few months, but finally Keate gave Harman the go-ahead and it was completed.
Harman would go on to create many of Vancouver’s iconic sculptures, including Roger Bannister passing John Landy in the Miracle Mile, sprinter Harry Jerome in full flight, and the Lady Justice figure in the Vancouver courthouse. He died on Jan. 3, 2001 at age 73.
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Many parents struggle with whether or not family nudity is acceptable. Don't worry, experts say it is, but there are still important things parents need to consider.
Plenty of parents can relate to the struggle with the nuances of family nudity, particularly when it comes to children seeing Mom or Dad in the buff. So many questions arise: Is it OK as long as he seems comfortable? What if she starts making horrified faces? Should a child ever see a parent of the opposite sex naked? 
"There's nothing inherently wrong with being nude with members of your family," says Paul Abramson, a professor at UCLA focusing on human sexuality. Research is limited but one study found exposure to parental nudity had no harmful effects for kids age 3 to 6.
But it can still be a tricky topic for any parent to handle, especially as their kids start getting older. Experts explain how to navigate the topic of nudity with children and when it might be time to start covering up.
Choosing to embrace nudity in the home is really up to the parent. But experts say it's important to set some ground rules. Make it clear to your child that the clothing-optional mindset only applies to your home and that other families may have different rules, says Amy Lang, a sexual health educator in Seattle, Washington. And stress that being naked is only something you do around your family and that she needs to put on clothing when other people are around since guests may not be comfortable with it, adds Lang.
Not everyone in your household will be comfortable with nudity either. Aaron Pross, a Delaware dad of three girls, noticed that he began to cover up more and leave the room to change as his oldest approached the age of 4. "I was raised very conservatively, so that mentality is kind of ingrained in me," he says. "I just don't want to be seen naked." And that's perfectly fine, too.
"If you're comfortable being naked in front of your kids, be naked. If you're not, keep your clothes on," explains Lang. "As long as the message is that it's about privacy and not shame, embarrassment, or anything negative."
As kids approach the age of 3, they start to become curious about their bodies, what they look like, and how they function. That applies to toes, tummies, and noses, but also to body parts typically covered by underwear or a swimsuit. When kids see a naked body, whether intentionally or by accident, it's natural for them to have questions.
California mom Martha Shaughnessy has found that her boys, ages 4 and 6, have become more inquisitive as they get older. Questions range from why some bodies have hair to why mommy doesn't have a penis. "We feel it's a good way to demystify and explain bodies as the questions occur versus having to do a more formal introduction later," says Shaughnessy.
Staying calm and answering any questions matter-of-factly is a positive approach, says Lang. "If you can communicate to them that you are totally down with whatever questions they have, they're going to be more likely to come to you when they have a problem with their body," she adds.
That was the case for West Virginia mom Amanda Uch. Her 7-year-old daughter, who knows the proper terminology for female genitalia, had no problem complaining of vaginal irritation. "I plucked her up, tossed her in the bath, and explained that she needed to wash herself because she got toilet paper stuck," she says.
And truth is, despite a parent's best intentions, children will be exposed to the sexualized, photoshopped, and airbrushed images of nude or semi-nude adults prevalent in advertisements and on magazine covers. That's why having conversations sooner than later is a good idea. "We have to start teaching kids at a young age that we are imperfect by nature, and our bodies go through changes and transitions," says Aviva Braun, L.C.S.W., a New York-based social worker specializing in body image and eating problems.
 But try and keep responses age-appropriate and don't go into more detail than necessary at that moment. "It doesn't have to be a huge discussion," says Braun. Keep it light, offer a straightforward answer, and return your focus to the task at hand.
Regardless of your viewpoint, be aware that your child's attitudes toward family nudity may also change as he gets older. "The general lesson for much of parenting is that the child is often a really good guide," says Alan Kazdin, Ph.D., director of the Yale Parenting Center in New Haven, Connecticut.
Your child may start shutting her bedroom door when she changes or turning her back to you when getting dressed. She might make a hasty retreat after accidentally walking in on you naked or even request that you keep your clothes on.
It's also a good idea to check in with your child periodically to make sure he's still OK with your family's approach to nudity. Especially as he nears puberty, usually around age 10. "It's a very vulnerable time when kids' bodies are starting to change," explains Braun. "They might want to cover themselves up at that age and not be very open."
And if that's the case, parents should make it a point to listen. "It is imperative that you respect your child's wishes in terms of covering up or what they need in terms of their privacy," says Lang. "You want them to know that a safe adult respects a child's boundaries."
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