Statistics on the American family are sobering. From 1975 to 2000,
one-third of all children were born to single mothers, and one-half
of all marriages ended in divorce. While children from broken homes
are two to three times more likely to develop behavioral and
learning difficulties, two-parent families are not immune to
problems. The cost of raising children has increased dramatically,
and married couples with children are now twice as likely as
childless couples to file for bankruptcy. Clearly, the American
family is in trouble. But how this trouble started, and what should
be done about it, remain hotly contested. In a multifaceted
analysis of the current state of a complex institution, "Family
Transformed" brings together outstanding scholars from the fields
of anthropology, demography, ethics, history, law, philosophy,
primatology, psychology, sociology, and theology. Demonstrating
that the family is both distinctive in its own right and deeply
interwoven with other institutions, the authors examine the roles
of education, work, leisure, consumption, legal regulation, public
administration, and biology in shaping the ways we court and marry,
bear and raise children, and make and break family bonds.
International in approach, this wide-ranging volume situates
current American debates over sex, marriage, and family within a
global framework. Weighing mounting social science evidence that
supports a continued need for the nuclear family while assessing
the challenges posed by new advocacy for same-sex marriage, and
delegalized coupling, the authors argue that only by reintegrating
the family into a just moral order of the larger community and
society can we genuinely strengthen it. This means not simply
upholding traditional family values but truly grasping the family's
growing diversity, sustaining its coherence, and protecting its
fragility for our own sake and for the common good of society.
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