The Family in the New Millennium [Three Volumes]

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The Family in the New Millennium [Three Volumes] World Voices Supporting the "Natural" Clan

A. Scott Loveless, Thomas B. Holman

Praeger Perspectives
Volume 1
The Place of Family in Human Society
Volume 2
Marriage and Human Dignity
Volume 3
Strengthening the Family

Book Code: C9239

ISBN: 0-275-99239-X

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99239-2

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1352 pages, figs., tables, photos

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 12/30/2006

List Price: $350.00 (UK Sterling Price: £200.00)

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Media Type: Hardcover

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This three-volume book includes a selection of papers presented at the various meetings and conferences of the 2004 Doha International Conference for the Family. All articles emphasize the importance and rightfulness of the "natural family" as the fundamental unit of society. There are no surprises when it comes to conclusions. The book includes an assortment of academic and nonacademic approaches. The academic articles come from the disciplines of law, sociology, psychology, anthropology, medicine, nursing, social work, political science, philosophy, economics, and counseling....[a]ll of the papers are well written, informative, and well researched (if academic). Gary Becker's theoretical article is outstanding; the international contributions are excellent. A good resource for students, but its political nature warrants some caution. Recommended. All academic levels/libraries, professionals/practitioners.
—Choice November 2007
Loveless and Holman present a three-volume set derived from a November 2004 international conference on the family held in Doha, Qatar. Sixty-seven contributions are divided among three volumes addressing the place of family in human society, marriage and human dignity, and strengthening the family. Contributors from 19 countries and an array of professional backgrounds explore and explain events worldwide that affect and threaten the "natural" family structure of married father and mother with biological children. The authors examine a number of controversial issuesdivorce, abortion, euthanasia, same-sex marriagewith many taking stands that may be seen as politically incorrect. The collection is intended to "provide a new opportunity for global society to discuss the role of the family and to participate in promoting the family as the fundamental pillar of society and repository of values and high ideals."
—Reference & Research Book News May 2007

Description: A remarkable team of contributors based across 19 countries explores and explains events worldwide affecting the natural family--married father and mother with biological children --detailing concepts and benefits of natural family that have been taken for granted across centuries, but are now being challenged in many ways. These scholars, many admittedly taking stands that may be deemed politically incorrect, conclude that the natural family is being threatened, yet is vital to provide common ground among all societies, cultures and religious traditions. Psychologists, sociologists, economists, theologians, lawyers, health care professionals, and award-winning journalists are among the chapter authors, as are Nobel Prize Laureate Gary Becker, U.S. Department of Health Assistant Secretary for Children and Families Wade Horn, and former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Bin Mohamad. Whether or not you agree with their arguments, science and conclusions, you'll want to know what these influential figures are saying. Addressing many lightning-rod issues, from divorce and abortion to euthanasia and same-sex marriage, writers here span the world from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom to Australia, Turkey, India, and China. Intellectuals included are associated with institutions from Brigham Young University, Georgetown School of Medicine and the Boston College School of Law, to the University of Geneva, and the Maxim Institute in New Zealand.

Table of Contents:

Volume 1: The Place of Family in Human Society
Preface Her Highness Shiekha Moza bint Nasser Al Missned, Consort of the Emir of Qatar and President of the Supreme Council for Family Affairs of Qatar
Preface of the NGO Working Committee
Acknowledgments The Editors
Documents
:UN General Assembly Resolution A/58/15
UN General Assembly Resolution A/59/111
UN General Assembly Resolution A/59/529
UN General Assembly Resolution A/59/599
Section 1 FAMILY
Chapter 1 The Role of the Family in Modern Economic Life
Chapter 2 Government Policy and Responsibilities Toward the Family: Whats Happening to the Family?
Chapter 3 The Meaning of Family in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Chapter 4 The Family and Economic Development: Socioeconomic Relevance and Policy Design
Chapter 5 The Silent Relevance of African Trans-Family Ethnographies: Realities and Reflections on the African Family
Chapter 6 Family and Marriage in China After Implementation of the Single-Child Policy
Chapter 7 The Family in the Third (and Second) Millenium . . . BC: Where Weve Been
Chapter 8 Families in Different Contexts: A Comparison of European, British, and U.S. Union Formation and Family Patterns
Chapter 9 Modern Populations Trends and the Family
Chapter 10 The Generational Train Wreck and its Aftermath
Chapter 11 A Trade off Between Two Social Outputs: A Reference To The Qatari Womens Case
Chapter 12 Whats Happening to the Family in Developed Nations?
Chapter 13 Securing a Future for Children: The International Custom of Protecting the Natural Family
SECTION 2 PARENTS AND CHILDREN
Chapter 14 Why Are Parents Important? Linking Parenting to Childhood Social Skills in Australia, China, Japan, Russia, and the United States
Chapter 15 The Family: A Source of Untold Wealth
Chapter 16 The Withering Away of Marriage: Some Lessons from the Bolshevik Family Law Reforms in Russia, 1917 1926
Chapter 17 Demographic Processes in the Countries of Eastern Europe, The CIS and the Baltic: Trends in the 1990s and What We Should Expect in the Next Decade
Chapter 18 Characteristics of the Azerbaijani Family in a Period of Rapid Socio-cultural Change
Chapter 19 The Complementarity of Motherhood and Fatherhood: A Tour de Force of the Relevant Social Science
Chapter 20 Why Childhood Attachment Matters: Implications for Personal Happiness, Families, and Public Policy
Chapter 21 Cohabitation: Consequences for Mothers and Children
Chapter 22 The Family as a Source of Strength and Life Skill: The Role of Authoritative Parenting in Building Resilience
Chapter 23 Health, Happiness, and Human Capital
Volume 2 Marriage and Human Dignity
SECTION 1 MARRIAGE
Introduction by Editors
Chapter 1 Marriage in the Western Legal Tradition: A Product of Natural Law or a Creature of the State?
Chapter 2 Supporting the Institution of Marriage: Ideological, Research, and Ecological Perspectives
Chapter 3 Marriage in 21st Century Britain and Europe: Setting the Research Agenda
Chapter 4 Marriage and Modernity: Some Evidence from the United States
Chapter 5 The Positive Impact of Marriage on Society: The Case for Public Policy
Chapter 6 The Formless City of Platos Republic: How the Legal and Social Promotion of Divorce and Same-Sex Marriage Contravenes the Philosophy and Undermines the Projects of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Chapter 7 The Role of Marriage in Transmitting Values Between Generations
Chapter 8 Does Sex Make Babies?: Legal Justifications for Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, and the Regulation of Intimacy in a Post-Lawrence World
Chapter 9 Theory, Tradition, and Contemporary Marriage
Chapter 10 Liberal Cautions on Same-Sex Marriage
SECTION 2 HUMAN DIGNITY
Introduction by Editors
Chapter 11 Human and Family Development: The Importance and Value of Older Persons for the Family and Future Generations
Chapter 12 Living Arrangements of the Elderly and Family Change in Japan
Chapter 13 Sex Differences: Natures Signposts to a Good Marriage
Chapter 14 Global Maternal Mortality
Chapter 15 Women and Abortion
Chapter 16 The Abortion-Breast Cancer Connection
Chapter 17 Should Voluntary Euthanasia be Legalized?
Chapter 18 The Effects of Pornography on Marriage: Dealing with a Spouses Sexually Addictive and Compulsive Behaviors
VOLUME 3 STRENGTHENING THE FAMILY
SECTION 1 FAMILY VALUES
Chapter 1 Aristotle and Aquinas on the Family and the Political Community
Chapter 2 Two Competing Value Systems: Premises and Consequences; Legal and Pragmatic
Chapter 3 Belonging: The Formation of Human Capital as Expressed in the Five Basic Institutions of Society
Chapter 4 Mother Teresa, John Paul II and Christian Personalism vs. Peter Singer and Utilitarianism: Two Radically Opposed Conceptions of the Nature and Meaning of Family
Chapter 5 The Family and Development: A Muslim Perspective
Chapter 6 The Decision to Love: A Jewish Perspective
Chapter 7 Summarizing Catholic Doctrine on the Family: A Christian Perspect

LC Card Number: 2006031055

LCC Class: HQ519

Dewey Class: 306


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