Posterity Lost: Progress, Ideology, and the Decline of the American FamilyRowman & Littlefield, 1997 - 353 páginas In this pathbreaking study that has earned the praise of scholars, family advocates, and policymakers, Richard T. Gill does more than illuminate the multiple causes and devastating effects of America's diminishing spirit of optimism. In order to reverse this disturbing trend, Gill urges Americans to reject short-term solutions, expand their time horizons, and, above all, give increasing care and attention to their children. |
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Página xi
... course it is no contradiction at all once one realizes how Americans distinguish between " welfare " ( a collection of unmarried young girls getting pregnant in order to receive tax - supported benefits ) and " people in need " ( a ...
... course it is no contradiction at all once one realizes how Americans distinguish between " welfare " ( a collection of unmarried young girls getting pregnant in order to receive tax - supported benefits ) and " people in need " ( a ...
Página xvi
... course . It would take a long time for scientific , economic , medical , po- litical , and social progress to accomplish their terrestial work . Still , the potentiality was clearly there . This , in fact , was what the Idea of Progress ...
... course . It would take a long time for scientific , economic , medical , po- litical , and social progress to accomplish their terrestial work . Still , the potentiality was clearly there . This , in fact , was what the Idea of Progress ...
Página xvii
... course , written extensively and with great effect on family issues . Ultimately , I suppose , my main inspiration for what follows comes from my own family experience with three sons , their wives , and now several grandchildren . One ...
... course , written extensively and with great effect on family issues . Ultimately , I suppose , my main inspiration for what follows comes from my own family experience with three sons , their wives , and now several grandchildren . One ...
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... course , the institution that is , or at least always has been , associated with sheltering , nurturing , and preparing those younger gen- erations who are to succeed us is the family . Whatever its other func- tions , the family has ...
... course , the institution that is , or at least always has been , associated with sheltering , nurturing , and preparing those younger gen- erations who are to succeed us is the family . Whatever its other func- tions , the family has ...
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... course of this book , I shall try to establish the reality of family decline and ideological change in America , and also the profound interconnection between these two revolutionary developments . Part 1 , " The Problem , " is largely ...
... course of this book , I shall try to establish the reality of family decline and ideological change in America , and also the profound interconnection between these two revolutionary developments . Part 1 , " The Problem , " is largely ...
Contenido
In Disarray The American Family Approaching Year 2000 | 13 |
The Future at Risk The Consequences of Family Breakdown | 33 |
Why Conventional Explanations Are Incomplete | 57 |
The Crucial Role of the Ideology of Progress | 83 |
How the Process Gave Rise and Fall of the Idea of Progress | 103 |
The First Great Predicament of Progress | 119 |
A Horrible Capacity for Mass Annihilation | 135 |
LimitstoGrowth Predicaments | 151 |
Family values Evolution or Revolution? | 219 |
A Major Battleground Self vs Posterity | 237 |
Equality Family Advantages and Moral Relativism | 257 |
Reclaiming the Family Principles and Programs | 275 |
We Can Act But Will We? | 297 |
Notes | 315 |
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About the Author | |
The Fundamental Predicament of Progress | 171 |
Decline and Fall of the Idea of Progress | 189 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Posterity Lost: Progress, Ideology, and the Decline of the American Family Richard Thomas Gill Vista de fragmentos - 1997 |
Posterity Lost: Progress, Ideology, and the Decline of the American Family Richard Thomas Gill Vista de fragmentos - 1997 |
Posterity Lost: Progress, Ideology, and the Decline of the American Family Richard Thomas Gill Vista de fragmentos - 1997 |
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