The meaning of marriage
Subtitle: family, state, market, and morals
By: edited by Robert P. George and Jean Bethke Elshtain
Publisher: Scepter Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781594170898
Subjects: Marriage; Divorce; Mariage
Description: This volume brings together the best of contemporary scholarship on marriage from a variety of disciplines, history, ethics, economics, law and public policy, philosophy, sociology, psychiatry, political science, to inform, and reform, public debate. These studies aim to rethink and re-present the case for marriage as a positive institution and ideal that is in the public interest and serves the common good. The essays in this volume were presented to an audience of scholars, journalists, public policy experts, and other professionals, at a conference sponsored by the Witherspoon Institute.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-301) and index.
Table of contents: title: Sacrilege and sacrament  -- Roger Scruton; title: What about the children? Liberal cautions on same-sex marriage  -- Don Browning and Elizabeth Marquardt; title: Changing dynamics of the family in recent European history  -- Harold James; title: Why unilateral divorce has no place in a free society  -- Jennifer Roback Morse; title: Framer's idea of marriage and family  -- David F. Forte; title: Family and the laws  -- Hadley Arkes; title: What's sex got to do with it? Marriage, morality, and rationality  -- Robert P. George; title: Soft despotism and same-sex marriage  -- Seana Sugrue; title: (How) Does marriage protect child well-being?  -- Maggie Gallagher; title: Current crisis in marriage law, its origins, and its impact  -- Katherine Shaw Spaht; title: Suffer the little children: marriage, the poor and the Commonweal -- W. Bradford Wilcox.