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001 ocn872624434
003 OCoLC
005 20221005074504.0
008 140314r20102006nyu b 001 0 eng d
040 $aSAC$beng$erda$cSAC$dSAC$dOCLCO$dOCLCQ$dOCLCO
020 $a9781594170898$q(pbk.)
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035 $a(OCoLC)872624434
043 $an-us---
050 14 $aHQ536$b.M415 2010
245 04 $aThe meaning of marriage :$bfamily, state, market, and morals /$cedited by Robert P. George and Jean Bethke Elshtain.
264 1 $aNew York :$bScepter Publishers,$c2010.
300 $axviii, 318 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $aThis volume brings together the best of contemporary scholarship on marriage from a variety of disciplines, history, ethics, economics, law and public policy, philosophy, sociology, psychiatry, political science, to inform, and reform, public debate. These studies aim to rethink and re-present the case for marriage as a positive institution and ideal that is in the public interest and serves the common good. The essays in this volume were presented to an audience of scholars, journalists, public policy experts, and other professionals, at a conference sponsored by the Witherspoon Institute.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 255-301) and index.
505 00 $tSacrilege and sacrament /$rRoger Scruton --$tWhat about the children? Liberal cautions on same-sex marriage /$rDon Browning and Elizabeth Marquardt --$tChanging dynamics of the family in recent European history /$rHarold James --$tWhy unilateral divorce has no place in a free society /$rJennifer Roback Morse --$tFramer's idea of marriage and family /$rDavid F. Forte --$tFamily and the laws /$rHadley Arkes --$tWhat's sex got to do with it? Marriage, morality, and rationality /$rRobert P. George --$tSoft despotism and same-sex marriage /$rSeana Sugrue --$t(How) Does marriage protect child well-being? /$rMaggie Gallagher --$tCurrent crisis in marriage law, its origins, and its impact /$rKatherine Shaw Spaht --$tSuffer the little children: marriage, the poor and the Commonweal /$rW. Bradford Wilcox.
650 0 $aMarriage$zUnited States.
650 0 $aDivorce$zUnited States.
650 6 $aMariage$zÉtats-Unis.
650 6 $aDivorce$zÉtats-Unis.
650 7 $aDivorce.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00895809
650 7 $aMarriage.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01010443
651 7 $aUnited States.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204155
700 1 $aGeorge, Robert P.
700 1 $aElshtain, Jean Bethke,$d1941-2013.
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948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN GTX - 6 OTHER HOLDINGS