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Divorcing Marriage
Is redefining marriage to include same-sex unions simply an act of fairness to gays and lesbians - another step in the evolution to a just society? Or is it a hastily conceived social experiment that will undermine human rights, deflecting marriage from the support of children to the mere affirmation of sexual commitment between adults? Written for a broad readership, Divorcing Marriage sheds light on three central questions: How did Canada come to the point of proposing a redefinition of marriage? Where would redefinition take Canadian society? Do the Charter and equality rights mandate exchanging an opposite-sex institution for one built on "the union of two persons"? The contributors ask Canadians to pause for reflection and take a closer look at the arguments for and against redefinition of marriage. They implore us to examine the effects of marriage on children, the law, freedom of speech and religion, and society as a whole. The authors are prominent Canadians in the fields of law, ethics, political science, religion, and culture and include, among others, Margaret Somerville, Ted Morton, F.C. DeCoste, Katherine Young, and Conservative Party MP John McKay.
Gay Marriage
Few issues have dominated recent Canadian politics like the legalization of same-sex marriage. In exclusive interviews with couples, activists, lawyers, political advisers and ministers, Sylvain Larocque explores this divisive issue with depth and insight.
What Is Parenthood?
Extraordinary changes in patterns of family life—and family law—have dramatically altered the boundaries of parenthood and opened up numerous questions and debates. What is parenthood and why does it matter? How should society define, regulate, and support it? Is parenthood separable from marriage—or couplehood—when society seeks to foster children’s well-being? What is the better model of parenthood from the perspective of child outcomes? Intense disagreements over the definition and future of marriage often rest upon conflicting convictions about parenthood. What Is Parenthood? asks bold and direct questions about parenthood in contemporary society, and it brings together a stellar interdisciplinary group of scholars with widely varying perspectives to investigate them. Editors Linda C. McClain and Daniel Cere facilitate a dynamic conversation between scholars from several disciplines about competing models of parenthood and a sweeping array of topics, including single parenthood, adoption, donor-created families, gay and lesbian parents, transnational parenthood, parent-child attachment, and gender difference and parenthood.
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Trăim în aceste zile o senzaţie crescândă de neputinţă în faţa istoriei care se scrie cu vieţile noastre. Vedem imperii destrămându-se, războaie civile, regrupări politice, formări de uniuni economice şi monetare. Ce şansă are individul, omul de rând, să influenţeze în vreun fel mersul evenimentelor? Nici măcar votul său, într-o ţară democratică, nu mai pare să însemne aşa de mult ca altădată. Nu este oare omul victima celor puternici, care se folosesc de el, dar iau decizii mult peste capul lui? Cartea Daniel vine să risipească astfel de temeri, proclamând un extraordinar adevăr: „Cel Prea Înalt stăpâneşte peste împărăţia oamenilor, [...] o dă...
Defending Marriage
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In Defense of the Marital Family
This book combines Christian theology, Enlightenment liberalism, and modern social science to defend the marital family as an essential institution for adults and children, regardless of sexual orientation. John Witte presents the marital family as an integrated sphere with natural, social, economic, communicative, contractual, and spiritual dimensions. He rejects modern efforts to abolish the legal category of marriage or to reduce it to a transient and malleable sexual contract. While celebrating the sexual liberty of consensual adults, Witte calls for stable marital families and responsible sex and parentage as the surest and safest path to private flourishing and social stability for all.
The Family and Christian Ethics
Explores family not as a problem but as a mystery in order to understand its current controversial character.
Church, State, and Family
Presents a robust defence of the essential place of stable marital families in modern liberal societies.
Does Christianity Teach Male Headship?
This is not just another book on the perennial issue of male headship. In contrast to those many who regard Christianity as the great source of male domination, this book argues that authentic Christianity does not teach that husbands have spiritual superiority over their wives, and its authors listen to and engage voices that still claim that it does. Written by distinguished Protestant and Roman Catholic scholars, the book first demonstrates how deep strands of the Christian tradition have always taught an ethic of gender mutuality, sowing the seeds for what is today called the "equal-regard marriage." Though patriarchy was pervasive in the ancient world surrounding early Christianity and ...
