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Divided We Fall - Family Discord and the Fracturing of America (Paperback)
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Divided We Fall - Family Discord and the Fracturing of America (Paperback)
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In the weeks that followed the horror of September 11, politicians
of both major parties resolutely asserted America's national unity.
Barely four years later, the illusions of the rhetoric of unity
have given way to the divisive oversimplifications of Red vs. Blue
electoral cartography. Divided We Fall: Family Discord and the
Fracturing of America offers a more nuanced yet more disturbing
picture of American disunity, a disunity both social and political,
both public and personal. Deeper than the disagreements that
separate voter from voter, this disunity increasingly separates man
from woman, husband from wife, parent from child, grandparent from
grandchild, and sibling from sibling. Though the national turmoil
in family life has unquestionably opened new divides in political
life (on the questions of abortion and gay marriage, for instance),
this analysis explores the bewildering cross-cutting tensions
surrounding these fissures. The search for ways to bridge such
fissures takes on particular urgency because of the mounting costs
of family disintegration--social and legal, cultural and
psychological. Because they recognize the often-desperate plight of
single mothers and their children, policymakers have often worked
together in bipartisan fashion to intensify government efforts to
collect child support from non-custodial fathers, to place abused
children in foster care, and to provide shelter for the family
fragments on the street. But these pragmatic government responses
to pressing social needs are no substitute for deeper probing into
the cultural causes of these needs. Indeed, as the author probes
those causes--including the erosion of the home economy, of
restraints on sexual conduct, and of the traditional family
wage--he warns that continued reliance on government to compensate
for family failure will make matters worse in the long run. While
family failure puts ever more burdens on government, this
investigation shows how such failure withers the selfless civic
impulses that sustain any healthy government.
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