21st Century Families
The New American Family
by Claudia M. Lenart
There is no prototype for the "normal" family. Today’s families are a diverse mix of single-parent households, remarried families, nuclear families, unmarried couples, and couples without children.
Surviving in a Stepfamily
by Nina Amir Lacey
It can be difficult to make a stepfamily work. In fact, 60 percent of all remarriages eventually end in divorce — oftentimes because the marriage cannot withstand the stress of the stepfamily situation.
Creating Good Citizens
by Michael Hansen
What do we teach our children to make them into effective citizens? How do we prepare them for a success that isn’t amoral? How do we give them the skills they need to survive a heartless world?
Ditching the Mommy Trap
by Nina Shapiro
Women and men are coming up with creative and untraditional ways of balancing work and family life. Quietly, these families are forging a new lifestyle that expands conventional notions of what is possible.
The Tabloid Environmentalist
by Colin Woodard
The Skeptical Environmentalist, a new book by Bjorn Lomborg, is an intellectually dishonest tract filled with glaring omissions, appalling errors of fact and analysis, and inaccurate characterizations of contrary arguments. Unfortunately, the media reaction has been surprisingly un-skeptical. The book has become a runaway hit on both sides of the Atlantic following a wave of credulous features, book reviews, and Lomborg guest essays published in many of the English-speaking world’s most respected newspapers and magazines.
