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
... seems to reverse it . When the president or Congress urges " welfare reform , " Americans are pleased but not optimistic . They have heard such promises before , and note , correctly , that little seems to change after any " reform ...
... seems to reverse it . When the president or Congress urges " welfare reform , " Americans are pleased but not optimistic . They have heard such promises before , and note , correctly , that little seems to change after any " reform ...
Página xii
... seem like admirable mo- tives , dramatically weakened the social constraints that once guaranteed that the great majority of children would grow up in two - parent fami- lies . In support of this view he draws our attention to. xii ...
... seem like admirable mo- tives , dramatically weakened the social constraints that once guaranteed that the great majority of children would grow up in two - parent fami- lies . In support of this view he draws our attention to. xii ...
Página xvi
... seem , for many , an increasingly doubtful proposition . The message of this book is precisely that this promise of a future earthly paradise has now itself become an increasingly doubtful proposi- tion . We are rapidly losing our faith ...
... seem , for many , an increasingly doubtful proposition . The message of this book is precisely that this promise of a future earthly paradise has now itself become an increasingly doubtful proposi- tion . We are rapidly losing our faith ...
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... seems almost quaint . Who could possibly foresee the future over such long stretches of time ? How could anybody feel so much confidence in these rosy predictions ? How could it have been during late nineteenth - century America that ...
... seems almost quaint . Who could possibly foresee the future over such long stretches of time ? How could anybody feel so much confidence in these rosy predictions ? How could it have been during late nineteenth - century America that ...
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... seem in- creasingly vigorous ; market economies are everywhere challenging the stranglehold of the " command economy " model ; and so on . At the same time , however , one can also find justifications for pessimism — rapid population ...
... seem in- creasingly vigorous ; market economies are everywhere challenging the stranglehold of the " command economy " model ; and so on . At the same time , however , one can also find justifications for pessimism — rapid population ...
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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