TY - BOOK AU - Pearlstein,Mitch TI - Broken Bonds: What Family Fragmentation Means for America's Future SN - 9781442236646 AV - HQ536 .P378 2014 U1 - 306.850973 PY - 2014/// CY - Blue Ridge Summit PB - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated KW - Families -- United States -- History -- 21st century KW - Interpersonal relations -- United States KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: How Big of a Problem? -- Chapter Two: Why Are Family Fragmentation Rates So High? -- Chapter Three: How Well Do We Know and Feel for Each Other? -- Chapter Four: Stuck in Place? -- Chapter Five: How Will We Govern? -- Chapter Six: What Will America Look Like and Be? -- Chapter Seven: What to Do? -- Chapter Eight: Conclusion -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Index -- About the Author N2 - In Broken Bonds, Mitch Pearlstein explores the declining state of the American family and what its disintegration means for our future. Based on candid interviews with over 30 leading family experts across the political spectrum, Pearlstein ruminates on the political, social, and spiritual fallout of this trend. In honest and frank conversations, Pearlstein and his interviewees fearlessly diagnose the problems that many have been too timid to explore and suggest ways to reverse these trends that threaten our social fabric UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1767204 ER -