Sex, Family, and the Culture Wars

Taking a traditional view on the family, gender roles, and sexuality, the author compares four accounts of the family: sociobiological and categorical, which view the family as normative and a natural phenomenon, and liberal and libertarian social-constructivist, which view the family as a social construction. He argues that reducing the family to a social construction is incomplete because that ignores its biological and moral bases. He describes what he believes to be the proper structure, moral authority, and social and political significance of the family, and concludes that it is the primary social, moral, and political category and that redefining it differently from marriage between husband and wife creates social, emotional, psychological, and financial costs.,Taking a traditional view on the family, gender roles, and sexuality, the author compares four accounts of the family: sociobiological and categorical, which view the family as normative and a natural phenomenon, and liberal and libertarian social-constructivist, which view the family as a social construction. He argues that reducing the family to a social construction is incomplete because that ignores its biological and moral bases. He describes what he believes to be the proper structure, moral authority, and social and political significance of the family, and concludes that it is the primary social, moral, and political category and that redefining it differently from marriage between husband and wife creates social, emotional, psychological, and financial costs.,Taking a traditional view on the family, gender roles, and sexuality, the author compares four accounts of the family: sociobiological and categorical, which view the family as normative and a natural phenomenon, and liberal and libertarian social-constructivist, which view the family as a social construction. He argues that reducing the family to a social construction is incomplete because that ignores its biological and moral bases. He describes what he believes to be the proper structure, moral authority, and social and political significance of the family, and concludes that it is the primary social, moral, and political category and that redefining it differently from marriage between husband and wife creates social, emotional, psychological, and financial costs. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)