Divided We Fall: Family Discord and the Fracturing of America

Divided We Fall: Family Discord and the Fracturing of America offers a picture of American disunity, a disunity both social and political, both public and personal.

Table of Contents:
1: Divided We Fall: Family Strife in America’s Second Civil War; 2: Friendly Fire in the War on Terror? The Bewildering Tactics of America’s Anti-Family Ideologues; 3: Dead-Beat Dads or Fleeced Fathers? The Strange Politics of Child Support; 4: Fostering Confusion: The Real Foster-Care Crisis; 5: Homeless America: Why Has America Lost Its Homemakers?; 6: Queer Demand? Why Homosexuals Began Demanding What Marriage Had Become; 7: The End of Patriotism: Family Tumult in “the Seedbed of the State”; 8: A New “Fable of the Bees”: America’s Family-Failure Economy; 9: Taking off the Rose-Colored Glasses: Post-9/11 Sobriety as a Basis for Healthier Family Life; 10: Turning Back the Clock: Should America Try to Recover Lost Family Strengths?

About the Author :
Bryce Christensen is assistant professor of composition in the English Department of Southern Utah University. He is the author of Utopia Against the Family and many articles on cultural and literary issues in various scholarly journals.

Review :
-Divided We Fall is that rare book that will fundamentally alter the way readers think about its subject. Bryce Christensen has carried analysis of America's family crisis to a new level of insight. Building on meticulous research, Divided We Fall shatters prevailing myths about the 'culture war' and illuminates the true complex interplay of politics and social change. Christensens' original analysis of the fissures in American life revealed by the 9/11 attacks is particularly startling and disturbing.- --Allan Carlson, President of the Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society and author of Fractured Generations (Transaction 2005)
-Professor Bryce Christensen's book examines the radical conditions surrounding fractious family life in contemporary American society and culture. His tone is urgent, his concern is profound, his approach is balanced, his exposition is lucid and eloquent. To politicize or to ideologize today's American civil war of the family disintegration, ' he shows, further deepens the crisis of the family. The values of the ethical life and moral life need to be renewed if traditional family strengths are to be saved from extinction. Integrity and honesty infuse Christensen's diagnosis of the ills that afflict civic order. There is much to ponder in these thoughtful pages, and much to learn from an encounter here with critical intelligence of the first order.-George A. Panichas Editor, Modern Age: A Quarterly Review "Divided We Fall is that rare book that will fundamentally alter the way readers think about its subject. Bryce Christensen has carried analysis of America's family crisis to a new level of insight. Building on meticulous research, Divided We Fall shatters prevailing myths about the 'culture war' and illuminates the true complex interplay of politics and social change. Christensens' original analysis of the fissures in American life revealed by the 9/11 attacks is particularly startling and disturbing." --Allan Carlson, President of the Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society and author of Fractured Generations (Transaction 2005)
"Professor Bryce Christensen's book examines the radical conditions surrounding fractious family life in contemporary American society and culture. His tone is urgent, his concern is profound, his approach is balanced, his exposition is lucid and eloquent. To politicize or to ideologize today's American civil war of the family disintegration, ' he shows, further deepens the crisis of the family. The values of the ethical life and moral life need to be renewed if traditional family strengths are to be saved from extinction. Integrity and honesty infuse Christensen's diagnosis of the ills that afflict civic order. There is much to ponder in these thoughtful pages, and much to learn from an encounter here with critical intelligence of the first order."George A. Panichas Editor, Modern Age: A Quarterly Review ""Divided We Fall" is that rare book that will fundamentally alter the way readers think about its subject. Bryce Christensen has carried analysis of America's family crisis to a new level of insight. Building on meticulous research, "Divided We Fall" shatters prevailing myths about the 'culture war' and illuminates the true complex interplay of politics and social change. Christensens' original analysis of the fissures in American life revealed by the 9/11 attacks is particularly startling and disturbing." --Allan Carlson, President of the "Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society" and author of "Fractured Generations" (Transaction 2005)
"Professor Bryce Christensen's book examines the radical conditions surrounding fractious family life in contemporary American society and culture. His tone is urgent, his concern is profound, his approach is balanced, his exposition is lucid and eloquent. To politicize or to ideologize today's American civil war of the family disintegration, ' he shows, further deepens the crisis of the family. The values of the ethical life and moral life need to be renewed if traditional family strengths are to be saved from extinction. Integrity and honesty infuse Christensen's diagnosis of the ills that afflict civic order. There is much to ponder in these thoughtful pages, and much to learn from an encounter here with critical intelligence of the first order.""George A. Panichas Editor, Modern Age: A Quarterly Review"