ROCKFORD, Ill., Nov. 22, 2010 /
Christian Newswire/ -- Now that the US elections are over, the newest issue of
The Family in America: A Journal of Public Policy highlights "Policy Solutions for America" with hard-hitting essays on policy topics important to American families and newly election politicians. This last issue includes Bryce J. Christensen's look at the missing piece (the health effects of marriage) of the current health-care crisis, Elaine Donnelly's exposure of the "diversity" campaign at the Pentagon that subordinates the interests of protecting American interests abroad to a anti-family, social engineering agenda at home, and Robert W. Patterson's appeal for tax-reform that specifically aims to reinforce wedlock and marital fertility (
www.familyinamerica.org).
The issue also includes timely reviews by Jennifer Roback Morse of John Mueller's just-released
Redeeming Economics, a book that reveals the limitations of economics as understood by both parties, and by Peter Augustine Lawler of Matthew Spalding's
We Hold These Truths, a review that warns that the return to "founding principles" highlighted by the Tea Party movement overlooks the limitations of the founders as political theorists. The issue also contains 21 "
New Research" commentaries that glean from the best empirical data that confirm the social, health, and economic benefits of marriage and the natural family.
Bryce J. Christensen's essay catalogs the pervasive health benefits of marriage not only to adults but to their children and suggests that the United States will not reduce health-care costs without returning the marriage-based family to the centerpiece of American life.
Elaine Donnelly's essay demonstrates how the push by both the Pentagon and the White House of both parties to put America's daughters and young mothers on the front lines of combat has naturally lead to the push by President Obama to repeal the 1993 law that proscribed homosexual behavior as incompatible with military service. Donnelly also explains why the common sense recognition that men and women are interchangeable in all military roles, or that the at-risk intimate behavior of "sexual minorities" in the ranks would undermine discipline and morale, cannot be equated with the irrational injustice of racial discrimination but are necessary for military readiness.
Robert W. Patterson's essay, a follow up to his piece, "Fiscal Conservatism Is Not Enough," from the Spring issue, makes the case that family-centric tax reform may offer the most promise, relative to any single policy proposal, for a recovery of the American family in our time.
Patterson is the managing editor of
The Family In America and a research fellow at The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society.
The Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society (www.profam.org) located in Rockford, Illinois is an independent, non-profit research and education center (think-tank) that strives to be the leading source of fresh ideas and new strategies for affirmation and defense of the natural family, both nationally and globally. The Howard Center is also the organizer of the World Congress of Families project which unites people of goodwill who recognize that the family is the fundamental unit of society and coordinates the efforts of pro-family groups from more than 60 countries worldwide.
