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Day
Care: Child Psychology & Adult Economics
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| Edited
by Bryce Christensen |
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# THC101 |
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| Paperback
- 151 pages |
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| ISBN: 0-9619364-2-8 |
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| Family questions have emerged at the very center
of many of America's social and political debates. To clarify
those debates, we published The Family in
America Research Series. Through these books, a wider
audience may share in the findings of important research conferences
of historians, economists, political scientists, philosophers and
policy analysts from varying perspectives. These conferences
take up such diverse topics as the family wage, the social costs of
divorce, the tension between the state and the home, and the retreat
from marriage. Each volume includes not only the essays
presented at the conference, but also a concise summary of the
subsequent discussions. |
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| The
Family: America's Hope |
| Michael
Novak, Harold M. Voth, James Hitchcock, Archbishop Nicholas T. Elko,
Mayer Eisenstein, Leopold Tyrmand, Joe J. Christensen, Harold O.J.
Brown, John A. Howard |
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# THC102 |
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| Paperback
- 127 pages |
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The
Family: America's Hope is a collection of speeches at a national
conference to consider
the role of the family in the free society, the subordination of the
family to what have wrongly been perceived as more pressing human
and social priorities, and the means by which the family can be
strengthened as the primary institution for providing individual and
civilization stability.
One of the proclaimed tenets of the
conference was a commitment to the sanctity of the family. The speakers and topics
were chosen with the intent of identifying the concepts which
undermine the institution of the family and the reasons why contrary
concepts must prevail.
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| The
Family Wage: Work, Gender, and Children in the Modern Economy |
| Bryce
Christensen, Allan Carlson, Maris Vinovskis, Richard Vedder, Jean
Bethke Elshtain |
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# THC103 |
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| Paperback
- 138 pages |
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| ISBN:
0-9619364-1-X |
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| Family
questions have emerged at the very center of many of America's
social and political debates. To clarify those debates, we published
The Family in America Research Series. Through
these books, a wider audience may share in the findings of important
research conferences of historians, economists, political
scientists, philosophers and policy analysts from varying
perspectives. These conferences take up such diverse topics as the
family wage, the social costs of divorce, the tension between the
state and the home, and the retreat from marriage. Each volume
includes not only the essays presented at the conference, but also a
concise summary of the subsequent discussions.
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| Religion
& Public Affairs: A Directory Of Organizations & People |
| By
Phyllis Zagano |
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| Item
# THC104 |
| Price:
$9.95 includes S&H |
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| Paperback
- 203 pages |
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| ISBN:
0-9619364-0-1 |
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Religion
& Public Affairs: A Directory Of Organizations & People
is a cross-referenced directory of religious organizations engaged
in public issues, their leaders, and their publications.
It provides background information for 179 organizations
including their statements of purpose, history, budgets, officers,
directors, and other information of interest.
As religious organizations become increasingly vocal on public
issues, news reporters, public affairs executives, government
officials, and others often need quick access to groups with which
they may not be familiar. The Religion & Public Affairs directory
is designed to meet this need.
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| The
Retreat From Marriage: Causes & Consequences |
| Edited
by Bryce Christensen |
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| Item
# THC105 |
| Price:
$9.95 includes S&H |
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| Paperback
- 170 pages |
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| © United Press of America, Inc. |
| ISBN: 0-8191-7898-5 |
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| Wedding bells ring less often now than in the
past. Fewer Americans are choosing to marry; those who do marry
later in life. The first-marriage rate among unmarried women
ages 15-44 has fallen over 30 percent since 1970. The average age
for first marriage has climbed to almost 27 for men and to 24.5 for
women. One American in eight now remains unmarried for life.
Meanwhile, the divorce courts keep busy terminating many of those
marriages that do form. Between 40 and 50 percent of all marriages
(including remarriages) will probably end in divorce. No wonder the
percentage of American children born out of wedlock has risen from
about 4 percent of all births in 1950 to over 20 percent.
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| Utopia
Against the Family: The Problems and Politics of the American Family |
| Bryce
J. Christensen |
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# THC106 |
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| Paperback
- 146 pages |
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| © 1990 Ignatius Press San Francisco |
| ISBN:
0-89870-282-8 |
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Disputes
over the family now rage with strange intensity. Some Americans recognize
the family as divinely ordained, a blessed refuge of love and
security in a world darkened by the effects of the Fall. But others
regard the traditional family as an anachronism, an obstacle to the
fulfillment of political ambitions. Utopia Against the Family clarifies
the cultural and spiritual significance of current debates over
family questions. Bryce Christensen identifies the underlying causes
of our national retreat from family life, while exposing the
mendacity of much "pro-family" rhetoric. Those who care
about family life will find this a sobering and provocative
analysis.
Drawing upon utopian literature from Plato to B. F. Skinner, the
analysis examines why the modern state expands at the expense of the
family. Utopian politics has weakened the family by fostering an
individualistic optimism, even a false sense of immortality. Yet
because of the favorable connotations of family vocabulary,
contemporary utopians have tried to redefine its key terms for
political purposes. The hidden cause of "the birth dearth"
and the unacknowledged meaning of the misnamed "gender
gap" are also brought to light, as well as the current
controversy concerning the "daycare" industry and the
suppression of the latest studies highly critical of this modern day
institution.
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| For
the Stability, Autonomy & Fecundity of the Natural Family:
Essays Toward The World Congress of Families II |
| by
Allan C. Carlson |
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| Item
# THC107 |
| Price:
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| Paperback
- 43 pages |
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| © 1999
The Howard Center |
| ISBN:
1-929912-005 |
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I. The Natural Family
Under Siege
II. The Family of Faith
Today: Shaping the Global Future
III. The Natural Family Faces a New World
Order: The Case of Population
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| The
Wealth of Families: Ethics and Economics in the 1980s |
| Edited
by Carl A. Anderson and William J. Gribbin |
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| Item
# THC108 |
| Price:
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| Paperback
- 122 pages |
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| © 1982 The American Family Institute |
| LCCCN:
82-72428 |
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| ENCOUNTER
SERIES |
| General
Editor Richard John Neuhaus |
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| Item
# THC109 |
| Price:
$150.00 per set includes S&H |
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| Set
of 16 Paperbacks - 2,611 total pages |
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| © 1993
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. |
| ISBN: 0-8028-0201-X
thru 0-8028-0216-8 |
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"Dialogue" is one of American
religion's shopworn terms. Although we hear much talk about dialogue, very
little of it actually takes place. Religious discourse - especially about
politics and public affairs - is increasingly polarized, involving much
contestation but little conversation. If truths are to be tested, however,
there is no substitute for dialogue.
Arising out of conferences sponsored by the Center on
Religion and Society in New York City, the Encounter Series presents
a diverse group of people - theologians, ethicists, philosophers, and
public-policy experts from across the political and religious spectrum -
in dialogue on a variety of controversial issues. Each Encounter Series
volume includes not only the essays presented at the conference but also a
lively narrative of the subsequent discussion, allowing the reader to
experience more fully the actual give-and-take of genuine dialogue.
The 16 volume titles are:
- Virtue-Public and Private
- Unsecular America
- Confession , Conflict, and Community
- Democracy and the Renewal of Public Education
- The Bible, Politics, and Democracy
- Jews in the Unsecular America
- The Believable Futures of American Protestantism
- The Preferential Option of the Poor
- Biblical Interpretation in Crisis: The Ratzinger Conference on
Bible and Church
- American Apostasy: The Triumph of "Other" Gospels
- Law and the Ordering of our Life Together
- Reinhold Niebuhr Today
- Guaranteeing the Good Life: Medicine and the Return of Eugenics
- The Structure of Freedom: Correlations, Causes, and Cautions
- Theological Education and Moral Formation
- Augustine Today
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