Single-Parent Families
Single-Parent Families | Single-Parent Families Contribute to the Breakdown of Society
Jean Bethke Elshtain is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago.
Summary: The disintegration of the American family is one of the most serious social developments that has taken place since the 1960s. Families have ceased to be the most basic social unit upon which the rest of society is built. The late-twentieth-century children of single-parent families are growing up violent, uneducated, addicted to drugs and alcohol, and bereft of values. Without solid families, America’s children and...
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Table of Contents
- Single-Parent Families Are Harmful
- Divorce Harms Children
- Single-Parent Families Contribute to Violent Crime
- Single-Parent Families Contribute to the Breakdown of Society
- Fathers Are Important to Families
- The Harmful Effects of Single-Parent Families Are Exaggerated
- Single-Parent Families Have Been Unfairly Stigmatized
- The Harm Caused by Unwed Mothers Is Exaggerated
- Single Mothers Are Unfairly Blamed for Poverty
- Single Motherhood Is a Legitimate Choice
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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