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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.
Description: This groundbreaking study explores the ways young
Americans today understand right and wrong, how they think out
their morality, and how they live it out. It describes contrasting
ethical styles in the biblical, utilitarian, and personalist
traditions of our culture; first, as they structured the conflict
between mainstream and counterculture during the 1960s, and second,
as they have shaped the transformation of these values in new
religious movements since the early 1970s. Coupling descriptive
ethics with interpretive sociology, this study pursues biography
and moral dialogue with sixties youth who participated in a
charismatic Christian sect, a Zen Buddhist meditation center, and a
human potential organization (est). It shows the significance of
these movements for the adherents' changing ideas of their own
identity; their relationships, sex roles, courtship, and marriage;
and their politics and vision of society. It analyzes the cultural
logic and the social location of their ideas, which break down,
recombine, and find renewal in the course of conversion.
First published in 1985, Habits of the Heart continues to be one of
the most discussed interpretations of modern American society, a
quest for a democratic community that draws on our diverse civic
and religious traditions. In a new introduction Robert N. Bellah
relates the arguments of the book both to the current realities of
American society and to the growing debate about the country's
future. With this new edition one of the most influential books of
recent times takes on a new immediacy.
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