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Family Values and the New Society: Dilemmas of the 21st Century » Read Now
by George P. Smith. 300 pgs.

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Beset by socio-legal challenges, medical, and scientific advances in reproduction, feminist philosophies and complex questions regarding its contemporary relevance, the family--together with the core values that have sustained over the years--is being tested, re-evaluated, and redesigned. This book...
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Beset by socio-legal challenges, medical, and scientific advances in reproduction, feminist philosophies and complex questions regarding its contemporary relevance, the family--together with the core values that have sustained over the years--is being tested, re-evaluated, and redesigned. This book directs its focus to the current national debate on family values providing a strong and practical framework for decisionmaking in topical problem areas which integrate the social sciences, law, medicine, political science, economics, ethics, philosophy, and religion.
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A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values » Read Now
by John R. Gillis. 318 pgs.

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...MYTH, RITUAL, AND THE QUEST FOR FAMILY VALUES John R. Gillis BasicBooks...myth, ritual, and the quest for family values / John R. Gillis.--1st ed. p...decline of family and...
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The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America's Changing Families » Read Now
by Stephanie Coontz. 233 pgs.

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"An enormously knowledgeable & readable affirmation of the kinds of families people really live in, & a critique of the political & economic structure that cuts them off at the knees." Karen Brodkin UCLA "Even-handed analysis of the most hotly contested issues of our day in a work that is vigorously...
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"An enormously knowledgeable & readable affirmation of the kinds of families people really live in, & a critique of the political & economic structure that cuts them off at the knees." Karen Brodkin UCLA "Even-handed analysis of the most hotly contested issues of our day in a work that is vigorously researched & a pleasure to read." Deborah Anna Luepnitz author of The Family Interpreted
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God Forbid: Religion and Sex in American Public Life (Part II "Families and Family Values: Historical, Ideological, and Religious Analyses") » Read Now
by Kathleen M. Sands. 272 pgs.

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Since the 1980s, religion has been most visible in American public life when issues of sexuality and reproduction are at stake. Paradoxically, however, the voices that speak most loudly in the name of religion are often unschooled in religious history, world religions, theology, or ethics. As a...
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Since the 1980s, religion has been most visible in American public life when issues of sexuality and reproduction are at stake. Paradoxically, however, the voices that speak most loudly in the name of religion are often unschooled in religious history, world religions, theology, or ethics. As a result, religion in America is misrepresented as anxiously and obsessively concerned with sex, and as uniformly supporting the conservative agenda of "family values." This volume corrects that distortion in American public discourse. Its thirteen previously unpublished articles introduce scholarly perspectives on issues including the family, gay rights, abortion, welfare policy, prostitution, and assisted reproduction. They richly display the complexities and conflicts that exist not only between but within America's various religious traditions--for example, the pro-choice strain within Christian history, the support of many religious denominations for gay rights, and the criticism of patriarchal family structures within religious communities past and present. In these essays, contributors put forth views of sexual ethics that are just and compassionate, respectful of cultural pluralism, and attentive to democratic processes. Thorougly researched, lucidly written, and carefully argues, this anthology will debunk the claims of the Religious Right to be the only "religious" word on sexuality in America.
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (Chap. 5 "Strong Families, the Foundation of a Virtuous Society: Family Values and Civic Responsibility") » Read Now
by Stephanie Coontz. 392 pgs.

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From "a man's home was his castle" to "traditional families never asked for a handout", this provocative book explodes cherished illusions about the last two centuries of American family life to expose the falseness, sentimentality, and self-righteousness of our accepted familial morays.
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A Vision of Families for the Twenty-First Century: A Declaration of Secular Family Values, in Free Inquiry » Read Now
by Matt Cherry, Molleen Matsumura. 2 pgs.

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...century: a declaration of secular family values by Matt Cherry , Molleen...calling for "a rerum to traditional family values." The authoritarian measures demanded...needs...
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America's Shame: Women and Children in Shelter and the Degradation of Family Roles (Chap. 2 "Family Values and Other Myths and Realities about Families") » Read Now
by Barbara A. Arrighi. 144 pgs.

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Rejecting those who urge a "bootstrap" approach to people living in extreme poverty on the edge of society, sociologist Barbara Arrighi makes an eloquent, compassionate plea for empathy and collective responsibility toward those for whom "either the boots or the straps are missing." This book...
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Rejecting those who urge a "bootstrap" approach to people living in extreme poverty on the edge of society, sociologist Barbara Arrighi makes an eloquent, compassionate plea for empathy and collective responsibility toward those for whom "either the boots or the straps are missing." This book further offers solutions in consciousness raising, community collaboration, and informed, responsible public policy. The book is a critique of a system that purports to serve yet sometimes impedes the welfare of those who are in need of the basic elements for survival, including affordable shelter. It analyzes the structural factors of poverty and the social psychological costs of being poor and lacking a home. Utilizing interview findings from families who have lived in a shelter in northern Kentucky and from staff members, the book examines the degrading effects of shelter life on women's self-respect and children's development. Rather than an examination of individual pathologies leading to lack of shelter, it centers on women and children living in shelters and offers a sociological study of poverty and the family.
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The Feminine Economy and Economic Man: Reviving the Role of Family in the Post-industrial Age (Chap. 6 "Telling the Truth about Family Values) » Read Now
by Shirley P. Burggraf. 288 pgs.

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Making a compelling case for restoring the primal economic role of the family, Shirley Burggraf offers provocative new ideas for divorce regulations, social security, education, welfare policy, the liability of parents for their children, and the responsibility of children for their aging...
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Making a compelling case for restoring the primal economic role of the family, Shirley Burggraf offers provocative new ideas for divorce regulations, social security, education, welfare policy, the liability of parents for their children, and the responsibility of children for their aging parents.Along the way she emphasizes the huge economic value of the nurturing roles traditionally exercised by women.
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Moral Authority, Ideology, and the Future of American Social Welfare (Chap. 2 "Family and Religious Values in Welfare Ethics") » Read Now
by Andrew W. Dobelstein. 288 pgs.

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In reviewing the ideological frameworks that have shaped the US experience, this book argues that more has been attempted through American social-welfare policy than is possible in the present system.
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The Family in Global Transition (Chap. 18 "Race, Gender, 'Family Values' and Public Policy") » Read Now
by Gordon L. Anderson. 544 pgs.

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...Chapter 18: Race, Gender, "Family Values," and Public Policy Twila...acephalous people, had three values that dominated family and community life: attachment...Moreover...
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Television and the American Family (Chap. 12 "Effects of Television on Family Values and Selected Attitudes and Behaviors") » Read Now
by Jennings Bryant. 385 pgs.

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...Chapter 12 Effects of Television on Family Values and Selected Attitudes and...on television as a setter of family values. Dan Brown and Jennings Bryant...entitled "Effects...
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The Assault on Parenthood: How Our Culture Undermines Parenthood » Read Now
by Dana Mack. 432 pgs.

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This book grapples with a disturbing paradox: the very institutions that are supposed to be helping parents in the difficult enterprise of child rearing are often infected with pronounced anti-family views. Despite the attempt by politicians and social theorists alike to posture as being on the side...
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This book grapples with a disturbing paradox: the very institutions that are supposed to be helping parents in the difficult enterprise of child rearing are often infected with pronounced anti-family views. Despite the attempt by politicians and social theorists alike to posture as being on the side of 'family values', Dana Mack argues, we live in a culture that is increasingly family -- unfriendly and indeed subtly undermines the efforts of parents when they are working harder than ever to raise their children properly. At once a devastating critique of our muddled status quo and also a clear blueprint for change, this book is bound to have a powerful effect on anyone who is concerned about the fate of the family in contemporary American life.
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Family Values: The Sequel, in The American Prospect » Read Now
by Arlene Skolnick. 9 pgs.

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...Family values: the sequel. by Arlene Skolnick...issue. By the end of the 1970s, however, "family values" had become a major battleground in a...Buchanans call for a...
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A New Focus on Family Values, in Psychology Today » Read Now
by Hara Estroff Marano. 5 pgs.

...A new focus on family values by Hara Estroff Marano For years the debate on family values has focused more on ideology than...To care about families is to have "family...