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 viii
... , and Moral Relativism 257 14 Reclaiming the Family : Principles and Programs 275 15 We Can Act , But Will We ? 297 Notes 315 Index 345 About the Author 355 FIGURES AND TABLES Figures 1.1 Percentage never married , by viii Contents.
... , and Moral Relativism 257 14 Reclaiming the Family : Principles and Programs 275 15 We Can Act , But Will We ? 297 Notes 315 Index 345 About the Author 355 FIGURES AND TABLES Figures 1.1 Percentage never married , by viii Contents.
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... married , by age and sex , 1960-1990 20 1.2 Divorced persons per 1,000 married persons , by race and year 22 1.3 Birthrates for women , 15-44 , by marital status , 1950-1991 24 1.4 Married couples families , wives in labor force , 1960 ...
... married , by age and sex , 1960-1990 20 1.2 Divorced persons per 1,000 married persons , by race and year 22 1.3 Birthrates for women , 15-44 , by marital status , 1950-1991 24 1.4 Married couples families , wives in labor force , 1960 ...
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... married mother or whatever . Even asking for two - parent families reveals the extent to which America is a narrow , bourgeois mess . The more extreme form of social denunciation did not last . It could not , because it was literally ...
... married mother or whatever . Even asking for two - parent families reveals the extent to which America is a narrow , bourgeois mess . The more extreme form of social denunciation did not last . It could not , because it was literally ...
Página xiv
... marriages ; later , as parents lost control , they began to go out on dates ; today even dating is displaced in favor of spontaneous encounters . Adolescence was once a brief phase through which a child passed on the way to adulthood ...
... marriages ; later , as parents lost control , they began to go out on dates ; today even dating is displaced in favor of spontaneous encounters . Adolescence was once a brief phase through which a child passed on the way to adulthood ...
Página xvii
... marry me many years ago . With such a wife , how could I not believe in the importance of marriage and the family and the need to do whatever one can to help preserve these ancient and honorable institutions ? INTRODUCTION wo ...
... marry me many years ago . With such a wife , how could I not believe in the importance of marriage and the family and the need to do whatever one can to help preserve these ancient and honorable institutions ? INTRODUCTION wo ...
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 |
345 | |
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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