The Family, Civil Society, and the State

by Wolfe, Christopher; Bandow, Doug; Blankenhorn, David; Bradley, Gerard; Carlson, Allan; Criner, Lawrence; Dilulio, John, Jr.; Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth; Gallagher, Maggie; Galston, William; Glendon, Mary Ann; Glenn, Charles L.; Hafen, Bruce; Himmelfarb, Gert

• ISBN13: 9780847692248
• ISBN10: 0847692248
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-09-03
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The exact place of the family in a healthy political community, and the appropriate way to sustain it, are profoundly complicated and difficult questions. The distinguished contributors to this book endeavor to provide some answers.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Christopher Wolfe
Part One: What Is Distinctive in the Current Situation of the Family?	3	(66)
Chapter 1: Thoughts on the History of the Family	3	(14)
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Chapter 2: The Family Crisis Today	17	(4)
Lawrence Stone
Chapter 3: The Family in Extremis	21	(6)
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Chapter 4: Delegitimating the Family: The Classical Liberal Roots	27	(12)
David Wagner
Chapter 5: The State's Assault on the Family	39	(12)
Allan Carlson
Chapter 6: Rawlsian and Feminist Critiques of the Traditional Family	51	(18)
Celia Wolf-Devine
Part Two: Men, Women, and Children in the Family Today	69	(30)
Chapter 7: A Demographic Picture of the American Family Today--and What It Means	69	(10)
David Popenoe
Chapter 8: The Indispensable Role of the Father in the Family	79	(8)
David Blankenhorn
Chapter 9: Is the Economic Emancipation of Women Today Contrary to a Healthy, Functioning Family?	87	(12)
Mary Ann Glendon
Part Three: Law, Divorce, and the Family	99	(50)
Chapter 10: The Legal Definition and Status of Marriage	99	(20)
Bruce C. Hafen
Chapter 11: How Current Constitutional Law Undermines the Family	119	(8)
Gerard V. Bradley
Chapter 12: The Moral Logic of No-Fault Divorce	127	(8)
Maggie Gallagher
Chapter 13: The Case against Divorce	135	(14)
Diane Medved
Part Four: The Market, the Media, and the Family	149	(44)
Chapter 14: The Family in Capitalist America	149	(14)
Doug Bandow
Chapter 15: Television as a Medium Undermining the Family	163	(10)
Michael Medved
Chapter 16: Family Values and Media Reality	173	(20)
Robert Lerner
Althea K. Nagai
Part Five: What Public Policy Can Do for the Family	193	(72)
Chapter 17: Government Tax Policy and the Family	193	(6)
William R. Mattox, Jr.
Chapter 18: How Taxes Affect the Family	199	(4)
John Mueller
Chapter 19: Privatizing Welfare to Help the Family: The Biblical Center	203	(10)
Marvin Olasky
Chapter 20: Reforming Welfare--the Right Way	213	(6)
John J. Dilulio, Jr.
Chapter 21: How Government Schools [May] Displace the Family	219	(20)
Charles L. Glenn
Chapter 22: The Sex-Ed Wars	239	(12)
Lawrence Criner
Chapter 23: Forging a United Front on Family Policy: Premises and Suggestions	251	(6)
William A. Galston
Chapter 24: A Conservative Perspective on Public Policy and the Family	257	(8)
William Kristol
Index	265	(14)
About the Contributors	279