Fractured Generations

by Allan Carlson

One lesson of history is clear: No nation can go forward, or even survive, without a durable family system. Yet for the past four decades, the American family has been subjected to unprecedented political and legal challenges -- from the legalization of abortion and sodomy, to a gradual shift of the tax burden onto married couples with two or more children. Result? Marital fertility fell sharply while the divorce rate and out-of-wedlock birthrate soared -- and the elderly flowed into age-segregated housing and nursing homes. Now, in Fractured Generations, Allan Carlson, Director of the Family in America Studies Center, reveals how our government has been waging war on American families -- and shows how to restore the traditional family to its necessary place in American life.

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• examines the terrible assaults recently launched in America against the ancient institution of marriage

• dissects the failure of existing American policies affecting human fertility, at home and abroad, and proposes fresh strategies for a now "depopulating" world

• analyzes the failed promises of and real damage caused by widespread, publicly subsidized non­parental care of infants and toddlers

• proposes the means to restore primary and secondary education of the young as vehicles for family strengthening and neighborhood building

• examines the strengths and weaknesses of the peculiar institution of the American suburb, and proposes ways to make this mode-of-life more family friendly

• reveals the powerful ability of the federal tax system to influence family formation and family health, for good and ill

• explores the broader nature of the family economy, and lays out ways to strengthen this necessary material base of the autonomous American home

• analyzes the mounting "elder care crisis" in America and explores ways to rebuild the multigenerational family

• concludes with a summary of policy proposals aimed at securing the stability, the autonomy, and the fecundity of the natural family in America

"No social institution is more vital to the perpetuation of civilized life than the family. Yet few institutions have suffered more from the relentless incursions of modernity than the family. And no field of contemporary scholarship has been more politicized and debased than the study of the family. These three facts, taken together, explain why Allan Carlson's humane voice, and his contribution to our national life, is so rare and so valuable. He is our most persuasive advocate for the natural family, one of the few scholars willing to approach the subject with an unapologetically normative view. For him, the family is rightly regarded as the nexus of the profoundest of human experiences: marriage, sexuality, procreation, childrearing, home life, home economics, and the care of the elderly. Fractured Generations is not only a succinct defense of that view, but a meaty compilation of particular policy initiatives that can begin to restore the strength and dignity of the natural family and give it the tools to defend itself. It should be read by everyone who cares about the future of the family." -­ Wilfred M. McClay, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

"A welcome and provocative book of thoughtfully revisionist history and wise prescriptions by an honest, learned man of the Midwest, Fractured Generations points the way to a family policy rooted in healthy tradition, American liberty, and human-scale community." -- Bill Kauffman, author of Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette