The Natural Family: A Manifesto - Hardcover

Allan Carlson; Paul Mero

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1890626708 ISBN 13: 9781890626709

Publisher: UNKNO, 2007

Synopsis

Sixty years ago, the UN declared the family the natural and fundamental unit of society. Today no one knows what family means. In response to this unprecedented confusion, The Natural Family: A Manifesto defines the family based on universal human experience. Insisting, without apology, on the reality of the natural family, the manifesto issues a personal call to men and women to rediscover the fundamental source of life, joy, and freedom.

Carlson and Mero frankly admit that those who should have defended marriage were asleep when the full-scale assault on the family began in the 1960s. Even more seriously, most of them joined the assault by eventually adopting the very assumptions philosophical, social, and economic that have almost extinguished the family s traditional legal and social privileges. Family values is now an empty slogan for those with some nostalgic attachment to the family but who have no idea what the family really is.
Carlson and Mero examine why the family is in crisis, the ways in which the natural family is the source of culture and freedom, and what families can do to preserve the most fundamental and wholesome relationship on earth. Assured that human nature is on their side, Carlson and Mero can be both realistic about the family s plight and relentlessly optimistic. The Natural Family: A Manifesto is a road map, especially for the young, for rebuilding a culture of freedom, joy, and love.

About this title

About the Author:

ALLAN C. CARLSON, PH.D., inaugurated the World Congress of Families in 1997. The founder of the Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society, he has served as a distinguished fellow at the Family Research Council. The author of nine books, he has written for the Wall Street Journal, Touchstone, and Intercollegiate Review, and is the editor of The Family in America.

PAUL T. MERO worked for several years on Capitol Hill and is now the president of the Sutherland Institute, a public policy think-tank in Salt Lake City.

From Booklist:

As Carlson and Mero say any manifesto should, theirs includes a historical interpretation, a bill of principles, and a program for action. The family consisting of a married man and woman and their biological children has been under ideological and practical attack since the eighteenth century, more powerfully than ever before from the 1960s on. Against this history, they pose the principles of a revivified profamily movement, the central one of which is that the family, not the individual, is the basic unit of society. To restore the family in the U.S., they advocate family-friendly tax policies, legal protections for marriage, the family wage (i.e., sufficient to support a child-rearing spouse and children), homeschooling, controls on abortion and contraception rather than population growth, incentives to home ownership and home enterprise, and other measures. The chapters following the manifesto proper bolster the historical interpretation, marshal social-science evidence supportive of the principles, and expand upon the action proposals. Perhaps the most succinct, thorough, and impressive profamily argument yet made. Olson, Ray

About this edition

• Publisher: UNKNO
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1890626708
• ISBN 13: 9781890626709
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 271