In Defense of the Marital Family

In Defense of the Marital Family
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Publisher : Brill Nijhoff
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 900452861X
ISBN-13 : 9789004528611
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Synopsis In Defense of the Marital Family by : John Witte, Jr.

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.

In Defense of the Marital Family

In Defense of the Marital Family
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 91
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ISBN-10 : 9789004528604
ISBN-13 : 9004528601
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis In Defense of the Marital Family by : John Witte, Jr.

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.

In Defense of Plural Marriage

In Defense of Plural Marriage
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 371
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ISBN-10 : 9781316300077
ISBN-13 : 1316300072
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis In Defense of Plural Marriage by : Ronald C. Den Otter

With over half of Americans now in favor of marriage equality, it is clear that societal norms of marriage are being quickly redefined. The growing belief that the state may not discriminate against gays and lesbians calls into question whether the state may limit other types of marital unions, including plural marriage. While much has been written about same-sex marriage, as of yet there has been no book-length legal treatment of unions among three or more individuals. The first major study on plural marriage and the law, In Defense of Plural Marriage begins to fill this lacuna in the scholarly literature. Ronald C. Den Otter shows how the constitutional arguments that support the option of plural marriage are stronger than those against. Ultimately, he proposes a new semi-contractual marital model that would provide legal recognition for a wide range of intimate relationships.

What Is Marriage?

What Is Marriage?
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Publisher : Encounter Books
Total Pages : 154
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ISBN-10 : 9781641771481
ISBN-13 : 1641771488
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis What Is Marriage? by : Sherif Girgis

Until very recently, no society had seen marriage as anything other than a conjugal partnership: a male–female union. What Is Marriage? identifies and defends the reasons for this historic consensus and shows why redefining civil marriage as something other than the conjugal union of husband and wife is a mistake. Originally published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, this book’s core argument quickly became the year’s most widely read essay on the most prominent scholarly network in the social sciences. Since then, it has been cited and debated by scholars and activists throughout the world as the most formidable defense of the tradition ever written. Now revamped, expanded, and vastly enhanced, What Is Marriage? stands poised to meet its moment as few books of this generation have. Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, and Robert P. George offer a devastating critique of the idea that equality requires redefining marriage. They show why both sides must first answer the question of what marriage really is. They defend the principle that marriage, as a comprehensive union of mind and body ordered to family life, unites a man and a woman as husband and wife, and they document the social value of applying this principle in law. Most compellingly, they show that those who embrace same-sex civil marriage leave no firm ground—none—for not recognizing every relationship describable in polite English, including polyamorous sexual unions, and that enshrining their view would further erode the norms of marriage, and hence the common good. Finally, What Is Marriage? decisively answers common objections: that the historic view is rooted in bigotry, like laws forbidding interracial marriage; that it is callous to people’s needs; that it can’t show the harm of recognizing same-sex couplings or the point of recognizing infertile ones; and that it treats a mere “social construct” as if it were natural or an unreasoned religious view as if it were rational.

In Defense of Plural Marriage

In Defense of Plural Marriage
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ISBN-10 : 1316320111
ISBN-13 : 9781316320112
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis In Defense of Plural Marriage by : Ronald C. Den Otter

"With over half of Americans now in favor of marriage equality, it is clear that societal norms of marriage are being quickly redefined. The growing belief that the state may not discriminate against gays and lesbians calls into question whether the state may limit other types of marital unions, including plural marriage. While much has been written about same-sex marriage, as of yet there has been no book-length legal treatment of unions among three or more individuals. The first major study on plural marriage and the law, In Defense of Plural Marriage begins to fill this lacuna in the scholarly literature. Ronald C. Den Otter shows how the constitutional arguments that support the option of plural marriage are stronger than those against. Ultimately, he proposes a new semi-contractual marital model that would provide legal recognition for a wide range of intimate relationships"--

Against Marriage

Against Marriage
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9780191061585
ISBN-13 : 0191061581
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Against Marriage by : Clare Chambers

Against Marriage argues that marriage violates both equality and liberty and should not be recognized by the state. Clare Chambers shows how feminist and liberal principles require creation of a marriage-free state: one in which private marriages, whether religious or secular, would have no legal status. Part One makes the case against marriage. Chambers investigates the critique of marriage that has developed within feminist and liberal theory. Feminists have long argued that state-recognised marriage is a violation of equality. Chambers endorses the feminist view and argues, in contrast to recent egalitarian pro-marriage movements, that same-sex marriage is not enough to make marriage equal. The egalitarian case against marriage is the most fundamental argument of Against Marriage. But Chambers also argues that state-recognised marriage violates liberty, including the political liberal version of liberty that is based on neutrality between conceptions of the good. Part Two sets out the case for the marriage-free state. Chambers criticizes recent arguments that traditional marriage should be replaced with either a reformed version of marriage, such as civil partnership, or a purely contractual model of relationship regulation. She then sets out a new model for the legal regulation of personal relationships. Instead of regulating by status, the state should regulate relationships according to the practices they involve. Instead of regulating relationships holistically, assuming that relationship practices are bundled together in one significant relationship, the marriage-free state regulates practices on a piecemeal basis. The marriage-free state thus employs piecemeal, practice-based regulation. It may regulate private marriages, including religious marriages, so as to protect equality. But it takes no interest in defining or protecting the meaning of marriage.

The Marriage and Family Defense Manual

The Marriage and Family Defense Manual
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ISBN-10 : 0974168300
ISBN-13 : 9780974168302
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis The Marriage and Family Defense Manual by : Conflict Resources International

Church, State, and Family

Church, State, and Family
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 457
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ISBN-10 : 9781107184756
ISBN-13 : 1107184754
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Church, State, and Family by : John Witte (Jr.)

Presents a robust defence of the essential place of stable marital families in modern liberal societies.

Family Structure by Choice

Family Structure by Choice
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Publisher : iUniverse
Total Pages : 151
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ISBN-10 : 9781532089527
ISBN-13 : 153208952X
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Family Structure by Choice by : Daniel Ukadike Nwaelene ThD

While this book is not just about making choices, it is aimed at presenting the kinds of family structures that are prevalent in the world today in comparison with the original family structure as God designed and ordained it. To be able to detect a counterfeit, one must know the original very well. In effect, many people may not know wrong family structures because they do not know God’s choice of family structure. This book is, therefore, meant to point the reader to the right direction in order to prevent errors in choosing the kind of structure to have, or where to make possible corrections – depending on your current marital status.