Posterity Lost: Progress, Ideology, and the Decline of the American Family

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Rowman & 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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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
Index
345
About the Author

The Fundamental Predicament of Progress
171
Decline and Fall of the Idea of Progress
189

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