Healthy American families : a progressive alternative to the religious right

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Healthy American families : a progressive alternative to the religious right

John H. Scanzoni

Praeger, c2010

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"An imprint of ABC-CLIO"

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-219) and index

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This fascinating book compares progressive and more religiously conservative views and their differing impacts on the health of families. Rejecting the definition of family promulgated by the Religious Right, Healthy American Families: A Progressive Alternative to the Religious Right offers an innovative approach to understanding 21st-century families. Proactive rather than reactive, it explores the ways families have changed over the past 200 years and builds on that to elucidate the larger forces that continue to redefine male and female roles and the shape of the modern family unit. Part one of the book shows that the Religious Right's claim that a Golden Age of Families existed when our country began is fallacious. Instead families have been changing since the days of the Puritans. Part two picks up the threads to show how, in the wake of those changes, most of today's families are "healthier" than families at the time of our country's founding. Healthy families, the book asserts, spring from a blend of "conservative" ideals (responsibility and accountability) and "liberal" ideals (innovation and change). The result is "responsible change" that benefits both the individual and society.

Table of Contents

Preface: A Recovering Evangelical Weighs In Acknowledgments Introduction: The Religious Right: A Not-So-Classy Act Prologue: Our Not-So-Christian Nation PART I VOICES FROM THE NOT-TOO-DISTANT PAST 1 Families in Flux versus the Myth of a Golden Age 2 Chipping Away at Sexual Traditions: Pre-1960s PART II IDEAS FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW 3 Work and Parenting for Men and Women: Something Old, Something New 4 Human Sexuality: From Taboo to Celebration 5 Partnering: Love Is Where It's At 6 Parenting All Our Children: A Mission for Americans of Goodwill 7 Ten Guidelines for Healthy Families in the New Century References Index

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