1st Edition
Fractured Generations Crafting a Family Policy for Twenty-first Century America
By Allan C. Carlson
Copyright 2005
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
145 Pages
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Routledge
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Fifty years ago, the phrase "family policy" was rarely heard in America. Individual states maintained laws governing marriage, divorce, education, inheritance, and child protection, which regulated the formation, childrearing practices, and dissolution of families. However, these scattered policy issues were not seen as closely related. Until the 1960s, the nuclear family was an institution that... Read more
1: Marriage on Trial; 2: Recrafting American Population Policy for a Depopulating World; 3: The Fractured Dream of Social Parenting; 4: Reinventing the Schoolroom: Education as Homecoming; 5: “Bailey Park” or “Greater Pottersville”? The Natural Family in the Twenty-First-Century Suburb; 6: Taxing the Family: An American Version of Paradise Lost?; 7: Love is Not Enough: Toward the Recovery of a Family Economics; 8: A Fresh Vision of the Multigenerational Family
Biography
Allan C. Carlson
