INTRODUCTION ; SECTION I: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? POLARIZATION AND THE REGULATION OF SEXUALITY ; SECTION II: CULTURAL DIVISION AND LEGAL POLARIZATION ; SECTION III: LAW AND THE RECREATION OF CULTURE? ; SECTION IV: FEDERALISM, LEGITIMACY AND THE ROLE OF LAW IN TIMES OF POLARIZATION
Naomi Cahn is the John Theodore Fey Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School and a Senior Fellow at the Evan Donaldson Adoption Institute. She is the author of Test Tube Families and the co-author of several other books, including a leading family law textbook. June Carbone is the Edward A. Smith/Missouri Chair of Law, the Constitution and Society at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. She is the author of From Partners to Parents: The Second Revolution in Family Law and co-author of the third edition of Family Law, with Leslie Harris and the late Lee Teitelbaum.
Red Families v. Blue Families is a fascinating, groundbreaking look
at the ways in which the red versus blue political divide reflects
an even deeper divide in family life and sexual values. Cahn and
Carbone have updated the old maxim that the personal is political,
and enormously enriched it, with hard data and subtle
observations.
*Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker*
This fascinating and surprising book will change the way we think
about the culture wars. Naomi Cahn and June Carbone reveal a series
of unexpected truths about marriage, divorce, and sexual behavior
in Red states and Blue states. Some highlights: College educated
women are far less likely to divorce than those without college
degrees. Only a quarter of evangelical teens abstain from sexual
activity more than other teens. And expanding access to
contraception, rather than abortion, is the best way to delay
marriage and promote stable families. By using invaluable data to
cut through the ideological posturing that has distorted American
politics, Cahn and Carbone point us toward a less polarized
future.
*Jeffrey Rosen, Legal Affairs Editor, The New Republic*
The book's illuminating (if very technical) statistical data and
dispassionate approach render it invaluable.
*Publishers Weekly*
An illuminating analysis...Cahn and Carbone make a strong case for
formulating family laws through the existing federalized family
legal system so they are not victimized in culture wars inflamed by
vote seeking politicians.
*ForeWord Reviews*
Wonderful...The book is primarily a study of the way in which
different family forms have emerged in different parts of the
country, and the political ramifications of the polarized value
systems that result. But the data it contains reveals a deep
incoherence in the American government's family planning
policies.
*Andrew Koppelman, Balkinization*
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