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Can liberals do family values?

New report criticises devaluing of biological parenthood

Entitled 'One Parent or Five? A Global Look at Today's New Intentional Families', the report challenges assumptions that "intentional parenthood", resulting from surrogacy and sperm or egg donations, is good for children "simply because it is planned in advance of the child's conception." The author...

Study: Are Cohabiting Parents Bad for Kids?

As more and more U.S. couples decide to have children without first getting married, a group of 18 family scholars is sounding an alarm about the impact this may have on those children. In a new report out on Tuesday, they say research shows the children of cohabiting parents are at risk for a broad...

The Home Is No Place For A Singles Scene

The evidence suggests that family fragmentation undermines child well-being in six basic ways. First, by removing one parent from the home and multiplying outside pressures on the other, family disruption almost always results in a dramatic loss of parent-child contact time – by far the mo...

Perspectives on the New Familism

Public Attitudes Toward the American Family : An Overview of Survey Responses Covering 1963-1991

Running on Empty : America's Time-Starved Families with Children

All in the Family

I would like to suggest that today's serious family debate becomes coherent only when seen as the clash of two implicit world views. Moreover, because these governing outlooks do not fit our usual categories of "liberal" and "conservative," they remain largely invisible to the public, and poorly und...

Ozzie and Harriet, Alive and Well

More than one-third of all families with preschool children are "Ozzie and Harriets": homemaker mothers married to breadwinner fathers. They comprise the nation's largest single category of families with young children. Among all mothers with preschoolers, well over half are either not employed at a...

<p>The Relationship of Public Policy to Family Well-Being</p>

It's almost as if we can palpably feel a kind of cultural yearning for stronger families and the need to pay attention to the status and future of the family unit We are very much concerned with leading economic indicators to measure the health of our economy, but I think that we are beginning to se...

<p>Just What are "Family Values"?</p>

"FAMILY VALUES" is surely one of the most potent cultural and political phrases of the past decade. But while "family values" are often invoked, they are less frequently defined... Certainly, few societies celebrate diversity and tolerance as much as ours does. Our ethos of individualism, deeply emb...

<p>Shaping a Pro-Family Workplace</p>

The strategy, in brief, is to demand for U.S. workers what might be called the "pro-family workplace.'' Such a strategy poses the question: How much longer will corporate leaders ignore the new realities of the American workforce and the American family? In particular, how much longer will they unde...

<p>Shaping a Pro-Family Workplace</p>

The strategy, in brief, is to demand for U.S. workers what might be called the "pro-family workplace.'' Such a strategy poses the question: How much longer will corporate leaders ignore the new realities of the American workforce and the American family? In particular, how much longer will they unde...