The Family in the New Millennium World Voices Supporting the Natural Clan

Subjects:

• Political Science » Public Policy
• Law » Contemporary Law

Reviews:

• 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 5/1/2007
• 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 11/1/2007

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

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