Review:
An enormous contribution by an impressive set of family scholars. Promises to Keep is packed with information and should be 'must reading' for family researchers, students, religious leaders, mental health professionals and policy makers.--Howard J. Markman, author of Fighting For Your Marriage
This volume, with its emphasis on making marriage work in the social context of the 1990s, will undoubtedly move the strained public conversation over the issue of marriage to a higher plane of seriousness.--Don Eberly, founder of the National Fatherhood Initiative and Director of the Civil Society Project
A rousing, long-overdue call for public action.--Brigitte Berger, Boston University
A challenging set of recommendations which, if heeded, could profoundly and positively impact our culture.--Dr. David L. Ferguson, Executive Director, Center for Marriage & Family Intimacy
It [is a] pleasure to read these arguments made by serious and concerned scholars on a topic as central as the health of the institution of marriage.--American Journal of Sociology
An important contribution to a critical debate.--CHOICE
This book is important especially for councelors, pastors and others in leadership positions who shape ministry and policy.--The Lamplighter
About the Author:
David Popenoe is professor of sociology and associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University. Jean Bethke Elshtain is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of social and political ethics at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago and the author of numerous books on women, politics, and the family. David Blankenhorn is the president of the Institute for American Values.
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