基本説明
Volume 1: The Place of Family in Society/ Volume 2: Marriage and Human Dignity/ Volume 3: Strengthening the Family.
Full Description
A remarkable team of contributors based across 19 countries explores and explains events worldwide affecting the natural family—married father and mother with biological children —detailing concepts and benefits of natural family that have been taken for granted across centuries, but are now being challenged in many ways. These scholars—many admittedly taking stands that may be deemed politically incorrect—conclude that natural family is being threatened, and is vital to provide common ground among all societies, cultures and religious traditions. Psychologists, sociologists, economists, theologians, lawyers, health care professionals and award-winning journalists are among the chapter authors, as are Nobel Prize Laureate Gary Becker, U.S. Department of Health Assistant Secretary for Children and Families Wade Horn, and former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Bin Mohamad. Whether or not you agree with their arguments, science and conclusions, you'll want to know what these influential figures are saying.
Addressing many lightning-rod issues, from divorce and abortion to euthanasia and same-sex marriage, writers here span the world from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom to Australia, Turkey, India, and China. Intellectuals included are associated with institutions from Brigham Young University, Georgetown School of Medicine and the Boston College School of Law, to the University of Geneva, and the Maxim Institute in New Zealand.
Contents
Volume 1: The Place of Family in Human Society Preface Her Highness Shiekha Moza bint Nasser Al Missned, Consort of the Emir of Qatar and President of the Supreme Council for Family Affairs of Qatar Preface of the NGO Working Committee Acknowledgments The Editors Documents :UN General Assembly Resolution A/58/15 UN General Assembly Resolution A/59/111 UN General Assembly Resolution A/59/529 UN General Assembly Resolution A/59/599 Section 1 FAMILY Chapter 1 The Role of the Family in Modern Economic Life Chapter 2 Government Policy and Responsibilities Toward the Family: Whats Happening to the Family? Chapter 3 The Meaning of Family in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Chapter 4 The Family and Economic Development: Socioeconomic Relevance and Policy Design Chapter 5 The Silent Relevance of African Trans-Family Ethnographies: Realities and Reflections on the African Family Chapter 6 Family and Marriage in China After Implementation of the Single-Child Policy Chapter 7 The Family in the Third (and Second) Millenium ... BC: Where Weve Been Chapter 8 Families in Different Contexts: A Comparison of European, British, and U.S. Union Formation and Family Patterns Chapter 9 Modern Populations Trends and the Family Chapter 10 The Generational Train Wreck and its Aftermath Chapter 11 A Trade off Between Two Social Outputs: A Reference To The Qatari Womens Case Chapter 12 Whats Happening to the Family in Developed Nations? Chapter 13 Securing a Future for Children: The International Custom of Protecting the Natural Family SECTION 2 PARENTS AND CHILDREN Chapter 14 Why Are Parents Important? Linking Parenting to Childhood Social Skills in Australia, China, Japan, Russia, and the United States Chapter 15 The Family: A Source of Untold Wealth Chapter 16 The Withering Away of Marriage: Some Lessons from the Bolshevik Family Law Reforms in Russia, 1917 1926 Chapter 17 Demographic Processes in the Countries of Eastern Europe, The CIS and the Baltic: Trends in the 1990s and What We Should Expect in the Next Decade Chapter 18 Characteristics of the Azerbaijani Family in a Period of Rapid Socio-cultural Change Chapter 19 The Complementarity of Motherhood and Fatherhood: A Tour de Force of the Relevant Social Science Chapter 20 Why Childhood Attachment Matters: Implications for Personal Happiness, Families, and Public Policy Chapter 21 Cohabitation: Consequences for Mothers and Children Chapter 22 The Family as a Source of Strength and Life Skill: The Role of Authoritative Parenting in Building Resilience Chapter 23 Health, Happiness, and Human Capital Volume 2 Marriage and Human Dignity SECTION 1 MARRIAGE Introduction by Editors Chapter 1 Marriage in the Western Legal Tradition: A Product of Natural Law or a Creature of the State? Chapter 2 Supporting the Institution of Marriage: Ideological, Research, and Ecological Perspectives Chapter 3 Marriage in 21st Century Britain and Europe: Setting the Research Agenda Chapter 4 Marriage and Modernity: Some Evidence from the United States Chapter 5 The Positive Impact of Marriage on Society: The Case for Public Policy Chapter 6 The Formless City of Platos Republic: How the Legal and Social Promotion of Divorce and Same-Sex Marriage Contravenes the Philosophy and Undermines the Projects of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Chapter 7 The Role of Marriage in Transmitting Values Between Generations Chapter 8 Does Sex Make Babies?: Legal Justifications for Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, and the Regulation of Intimacy in a Post-Lawrence World Chapter 9 Theory, Tradition, and Contemporary Marriage Chapter 10 Liberal Cautions on Same-Sex Marriage SECTION 2 HUMAN DIGNITY Introduction by Editors Chapter 11 Human and Family Development: The Importance and Value of Older Persons for the Family and Future Generations Chapter 12 Living Arrangements of the Elderly and Family Change in Japan Chapter 13 Sex Differences: Natures Signposts to a Good Marriage Chapter 14 Global Maternal Mortality Chapter 15 Women and Abortion Chapter 16 The Abortion-Breast Cancer Connection Chapter 17 Should Voluntary Euthanasia be Legalized? Chapter 18 The Effects of Pornography on Marriage: Dealing with a Spouses Sexually Addictive and Compulsive Behaviors VOLUME 3 STRENGTHENING THE FAMILY SECTION 1 FAMILY VALUES Chapter 1 Aristotle and Aquinas on the Family and the Political Community Chapter 2 Two Competing Value Systems: Premises and Consequences; Legal and Pragmatic Chapter 3 Belonging: The Formation of Human Capital as Expressed in the Five Basic Institutions of Society Chapter 4 Mother Teresa, John Paul II and Christian Personalism vs. Peter Singer and Utilitarianism: Two Radically Opposed Conceptions of the Nature and Meaning of Family Chapter 5 The Family and Development: A Muslim Perspective Chapter 6 The Decision to Love: A Jewish Perspective Chapter 7 Summarizing Catholic Doctrine on the Family: A Christian Perspect
