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The Recovery of Family Life - Exposing the Limits of Modern Ideologies (Hardcover)
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The Recovery of Family Life - Exposing the Limits of Modern Ideologies (Hardcover)
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The Sexual Revolution, which has been underway since the 1950s, is
a rolling revolution-a set of unfinishable ambitions, all affecting
marriage and family life. Feminists want to "liberate" women from
childrearing as well as the home and build a world "beyond gender";
progressives aspire to build a society where human beings can
choose their natures; and sexual liberation theorists would take
human beings "beyond repression." These ideologies have sunk deeply
into our culture and our political regime. It is well past time to
ask the uncomfortable questions about whether these ideologies
betray human nature and undermine human happiness. The Recovery of
Family Life defends marriage and family life while exposing the
limits and blind spots in these powerful revolutionary ideologies.
After suggesting a general framework within which to understand the
ends and means of family policy, Scott Yenor explores what a
liberal society should seek to accomplish in marriage and family
policy. The framework is applied to some of today's most important
public policy debates on such controversial topics as gay rights,
pornography, population decline, women's equality, rape law, the
age of consent, and welfare state politics. Those advocating for
the rolling revolution often point toward necessary reforms, but
they offer an incomplete picture of human flourishing. In an
attempt to recover a healthier vision of life, Yenor asks that
those already resisting the rolling revolution evaluate their own
assumptions and aims anew: advocates on both sides of the partisan
aisle stand at risk of operating with truncated narratives. Public
policy can be an important tool to help the resistance, but only if
informed by a deeper vision in which marriage and family fit into
the broader political regime. The Recovery of Family Life combines
a focus on first principles with practical advice for lawmakers
about how to undo the damage our policies have done.
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