The Conjugal Family: An Irreplaceable Resource for Society Pierpaolo Donati and Paul Sullins, editors Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2015; 249 pages, $18.00 What seemed more certain in the sixties than that the future belonged to the utopian visionaries agitating for the creation in America of a marvelous new kind of society, a society of free sex, […]
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Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches (Updated and Expanded Edition) Russell D. Moore Crossway Books, 2015; 256 pages, $17.99 Dr. Moore shares that he originally wrote Adopted for Life as a resource to lessen the influx of office visits from families with questions on orphan care and adoption. Ultimately, […]
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Beyond Price: Essays on Birth and Death J. David Velleman Open Book Publishers, 2015; 232 pages, £29.95 It is interesting that in a time of seemingly unprecedented opportunities for unfettered individual choice, when few of the social constraints traditionally indicted as barriers to human happiness remain in place, two of our more pressing political campaigns […]
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Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage Paul Kengor WND Books, 2015; 256 pages, $18.95 In his latest work, Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left has Sabotaged Family and Marriage, Paul Kengor argues that twenty-first century Americans, with their unprecedented decision to redefine marriage, have unwittingly given […]
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Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom Ryan T. Anderson Regnery Publishing, 2015; 256 pages, $16.99 On June 26, 2015, by a slim, one-vote majority, the Supreme Court redefined marriage to be the affirmation of an intense romantic relationship between any two people. With this momentous step of judicial activism, the Court turned […]
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America’s Bitter – Pill Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System Steven Brill Random House, 2015; 528 pages, $28.00 Anyone who has ever been to see the doctor and subsequently received one of those mysterious documents called an “EOB” or “Explanation of Benefits” will appreciate the central tenet of […]
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Jephthath’s Daughters Innocent Casualties in the War for Family “Equality” Robert Oscar Lopez and Rivka Edelman, Editors CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015; 484 pages, $16.59 At the end of June, a majority of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court announced that the Fourteenth Amendment requires every state to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples. Following […]
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The Birth of the Pill – How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched A Revolution Jonathan Eig W.W. Norton and Company, 2014; 400 pages, $27.95 One winter night in 1950, Margaret Sanger and the scientist Gregory Goodwin (“Goody”) Pincus met in a Park Avenue apartment to discuss the taboo topic of birth control. For years, […]
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Generation Unbound – Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without Marriage Isabel V. Sawhill Brookings Institution Press, 2014; 212 pages, $32.00 For those concerned about family policy, the stark facts that Generation Unbound describes will be familiar. While teen parenting is down, for instance, “parenting by young unwed women has not declined. It has just moved […]
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Marriage Markets – How Inequality is Remaking the American Family June Carbone and Naomi Cahn Oxford University Press, 2014; 272 pages, $29.95 Across America, a new marker of social class is emerging. That marker differentiates the rich from the poor, the educated from the high-school dropouts. It separates those who drive Bentleys and vacation in […]
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