Conjugal America

by Allan B. Carlson

The advent of "same-sex marriage" as a major policy issue in America, and changes in the law and cultural attitudes over the past few decades (such as no-fault divorce and childlessness-by-choice), have put the institution of marriage in extreme jeopardy. Now, family and marriage expert Alan B. Carlson brilliantly explains - and vigorously defends - the real purposes and unchanging nature of this most fundamental human institution. Drawing heavily on the natural and social sciences - while also reaching into the past to find truths grounded in human experience - Conjugal America seizes the current controversy over marriage as an opportunity to revitalize a necessary institution that has recently been abused and neglected -- and reinstate it as the primary source of commitment and care in the modern world.

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• reexamines the basic bond of marriage to procreation, showing that this ties has been no less than the foundation of the unwritten sexual constitution of Western civilization

• shows how the Gnostic heresy, which despises procreation, posed a stark danger to the early Christian movement

• dissects claims regarding the "evolution of marriage," showing that true marriage always represents the vital connection of the sexual with the economic

• explains why marriage renewal must rest on the reconstruction of functional, child-rich homes

• rebuts the oft-heard argument that a marriage is simply about the needs and desires of two people

• reveals how marriage properly ties the couple to five concentric rings of community, from unborn children to the nation

• shows why every ambitious totalitarian government seeks above all to destry marriage - and why the true marital bond actually stands for liberty

• explores the special place of the institution of marriage in American history, arguing that this nation's past Great Awakenings have been manifested in the renewal of marriage, and suggesting that a third Great Awakening may emerge early this century

• concludes with specific policy recommendations for new protections and encouragements to marriage, to offset the pressures of the centralizing state and the pressures of modernity