War Over the Family

ISBN-13: 9781138540378 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 269 str.

David Popenoe

Opis

One of the most surprising and controversial social debates of the past two decades has been about the meaning and importance of marriage and the family in contemporary American life

Spis treści

1: Family Decline; 1: Family Decline in America; 2: American Family Decline, 1960–1990: A Review and Appraisal; 2: Marriage and the Family Today; 3: The Family Condition of America: Cultural Change and Public Policy; 4: Family Values: A Communitarian Position; 5: The Evolution of Marriage and the Problem of Stepfamilies: A Biosocial Perspective; 6: A World Without Fathers; 3: Rebuilding the Nest; 7: Fostering the New Familism: A Goal for America; 8: The Roots of Declining Social Virtue: Family, Community, and the Need for a “Natural Communities Policy”; 9: Modern Marriage: Revising the Cultural Script; 10: Challenging the Culture of Fatherlessness; 11: The Marriage Movement; 12: Can the Nuclear Family be Revived?; 13: A Marriage Research Agenda for the Twenty-First Century: Ten Critical Questions; 4: Part Looking Back; 14: Remembering My Father: An Intellectual Portrait of “The Man Who Saved Marriages”; 15: The War Over the Family: America’s Debate Over the Decline of the Two-Parent Family

O autorze

David Popenoe