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Plough Quarterly No. 26 - What Are Families For?

Plough Quarterly No. 26 - What Are Families For?

Douthat, Ross
Danticat, Edwidge
Williams, Sarah C.

Paperback

Series: Plough Quarterly, Book 26

Women's HealthChristian LivingGeneral Parenting

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ISBN10: 1636080146
ISBN13: 9781636080147
Publisher: Plough Publishing House
Published: Nov 17 2020
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.40 Width: 7.40 Depth: 10.20
Language: English
What is a family and what is it good for?

Story 1: Families are in crisis, and the cause is moral breakdown. We urgently need a deep renewal of our family culture, supported by public policies that strengthen traditional marriage and encourage childbearing.

Story 2: Families are in crisis, and the cause is capitalism. We need structural changes in society so that all families can flourish: parental leave, guaranteed healthcare, flexible work hours for parents, restorative justice.

What if both these stories are true? This issue of Plough reflects on what a family is and what it is for, so that the transformations needed to solve the crisis of the family start from a firm basis, not a nostalgic ideal or progressive theorizing. As always, we take as a starting point the teachings of Jesus. It turns out his idea of family values might not be what people think. He calls us to extend our natural love for our biological family to a vast new throng of siblings - a family of many ethnicities and cultures that includes the widowed, the unmarried, the outsider, and the stranger.

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