Fractured generations
Subtitle: crafting a family policy for twenty-first-century America
By: Allan Carlson.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
Subjects: Family -- United States; Family policy -- United States
Description: "As Allan Carlson makes clear in Fractured Generations, no nation can progress, or even survive, without a durable family system. The family is the source of life and the crucible of character that makes liberty possible. Contemporary family policy represents an attempt to counter the negative forces of the last four decades so as to restore the natural family to its necessary place in American life. Fractured Generations chapters follow the life course of the human family - marriage; the birth of children; infant and toddler care; schooling; building a home; crafting a durable family economy; and elder care. This is a passionate and well-reasoned appeal for a return to the institution that is the last best hope for America's future: the family."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Marriage on trial; title: Recrafting American population policy for a depopulating world; title: The fractured dream of social parenting; title: Reinventing the schoolroom : education as homecoming; title: "Bailey Park" or "Greater Pottersville"? : the natural family in the twenty-first-century suburb; title: Taxing the family : an American version of Paradise lost?; title: Love is not enough : toward the recovery of a family economics; title: A fresh vision of the multigenerational family; title: Appendix : an American family policy for the twenty-first century.