Drawing on thousands of survey responses and interviews with members of five families who have been forced to cope with a broad spectrum of challenges, this study discusses the rewards and risks of marriage, parenthood, and growing up in modern America. Read by the authors.
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What makes some families stick together? Former Vice-President Quayle (Standing Firm), who often speaks on family values, identifies a core of traits-including respect, discipline, attentiveness, religious commitment, TV curtailment and parents' involvement in children's schooling-as contributors to the cohesiveness of the five diverse American families he extensively interviewed with clinical psychologist Medved (The Case Against Divorce). Writing in the first person, Quayle profiles a white couple with three children in rural Virginia who operate a country inn; a middle-class African American couple in Chicago whose extended family helps care for their two kids; a single white mother from Indianapolis who left her cheating husband and now raises their five children herself. We also meet a Hispanic family of East Los Angeles whose son, just out of college, survived a car accident but suffered severe head injuries requiring years of rehabilitative therapy and a Hawaiian couple, multimillionaire entrepreneurs, with two adopted daughters, one Filipino Japanese, one black. (Only one of the families supported the Bush/Quayle ticket.) At the end of each profile, Quayle draws lessons-often preachy or obvious (pray together, try to find good in a negative situation), sometimes insightful (cultivate letter writing, force your children to talk about their day)-from their patterns of interaction. Quayle concludes, in an implicit rebuke to Hillary Clinton, that the "village" that raises a child should be the home, not government. His proposed pro-family policies include increased tax breaks for families; an overhaul of permissive "no-fault" divorce laws; an (unspecified) way to promote adoption over abortion; and a fight against crime, centered on more prisons for violent criminals. Photos not seen by PW. $200,000 ad/promo; author tour.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Quayle and Medved (The Case Against Divorce, LJ 5/1/89) consider five families that have surmounted challenges from gang violence to health crisis.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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