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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 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 Started Wanting What Marriage Had Become -- 7. The End of Patriotism: Family Tumult in "the Seedbed of the State" -- 8. A New "Fable of the Bees": Has America Created a 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? -- Index

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