Posterity lost: progress, ideology, and the decline of the American family
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 America...
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| Summary: | 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. |
| Physical Description: | XVII, 353 S. |
| ISBN: | 0847683796 |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
List of Figures and Tables ix
Foreword by James Q. Wilson xi
Preface xv
Introduction 1
Part I The Problem: Family Breakdown
and Its Relation to Progress
1 In Disarray: The American Family Approaching Year
2000 13
2 The Future at Risk: The Consequences of Family
Breakdown 33
3 Why Conventional Explanations Are Incomplete 51
4 The Crucial Role of the Ideology of Progress 83
Part II The Paradox: Rise and Fall of the Idea of Progress
5 How the Process Gave Rise to the Idea 103
6 The First Great Predicament of Progress 119
7 A Horrible Capacity for Mass Annihilation 135
8 Limits to Growth Predicaments 151
9 The Fundamental Predicament of Progress 111
10 Decline and Fall of the Idea of Progress 189
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viii Contents
Part III The Battle: The War over Family Values
11 Family Values: Evolution or Revolution? 219
12 A Major Battleground: Self vs. Posterity 237
13 Equality, Family Advantages, and Moral Relativism 257
14 Reclaiming the Family: Principles and Programs 275
15 We Can Act, But Will We? 25*7
Notes 315
Index 345
About the Author 355
FIGURES AND TABLES
Figures
1.1 Percentage never married, by age and sex,
1960 1990 20
1.2 Divorced persons per 1,000 married persons, by
race and year 22
1.3 Birthrates for women, 15—44, by marital status,
1950 1991 24
1.4 Married couples families, wives in labor force,
1960 1990 21
2.1 Family poverty: single mother families,
1960 1990 40
2.2 Risks of children: one parent versus two parent
families 42
8.1 World reserves of crude petroleum 153
11.1 Proportion of marriages to end in divorce,
1867 1973 225
12.1 Total U.S. funeral and burial expenses (% of gdp) 25i
12.2 Funeral and burial expenses (% of per capita
product) 252
ix
x Figures and Tables
Tables
1.1 Primary Child Care Arrangements, Employed
Mothers, 1993 30
3.1 International Comparisons: Divorce, Illegitimacy,
Single Parents, Employed Women 61
10.1 Premarital Sexual Intercourse, U.S. Women,
15 19, 1970 1988 204
12.1 U.S. Percentage of Cremations to Deaths,
1960 2010 252
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