The Abolition of Marriage: How We Destroy Lasting Love

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Artfully weaving poignant true-life accounts with sobering research findings, Gallagher shows how legal, cultural, and economic factors have combined to create a "post-marital culture" that punishes commitment to spouse and children, and rewards a selfishness and irresponsibility. The divorce rate: higher than ever before - and still climbing. Why? Tax laws that discourage parents from giving children time and attention that previous generations took for granted. A legal system that favors philandering husbands -...
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Artfully weaving poignant true-life accounts with sobering research findings, Gallagher shows how legal, cultural, and economic factors have combined to create a "post-marital culture" that punishes commitment to spouse and children, and rewards a selfishness and irresponsibility. The divorce rate: higher than ever before - and still climbing. Why? Tax laws that discourage parents from giving children time and attention that previous generations took for granted. A legal system that favors philandering husbands - and wives. The myth of the "good divorce." The truth about its devastating impact on children. Do couples who co-habit first really have better marriages, fewer divorces? And how many live-in fiances actually reach the altar? Research findings: how marital instability impacts the economy...crime...educational achievement...illegitimacy.... How divorce contributes to middle-class "downward mobility," trapping mothers and children in poverty and hopelessness. Child abusers: not typically, fathers. How they prey on marital collapse. How popular culture trivializes - even ridicules - marriage and its sacrifices, and glamorizes socially corrosive alternatives. Gallagher delivers a jolting wake-up call to political leaders and opinion-makers on both the left and the right, whom she excoriates for ignoring the crisis. Yet she remains hopeful. Just as we brought the problem on ourselves, she argues, so can we solve it. And she points the way with concrete, workable proposals for restoring the foundations of American marriage, and rediscovering the adventure of married love.

This emotionally charged book shows the critical condition the institution of marriage is in, and the devastating effects a broken marriage has on everyone it touches. Gallagher also shows how government--by making marriage legally and morally indistinguishable from cohabitation and by eliminating many legal and financial benefits previously gained through marriage--has greatly contributed to its decline.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780895264640
  • Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc., An Eagle Publishing Company
  • Publication date: 3/1/1996
  • Pages: 300
  • Product dimensions: 6.31 (w) x 9.29 (h) x 1.09 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Ch. 1 The Abolition of Marriage 3
Ch. 2 The Good Divorce 13
Ch. 3 The Victims of Choice 31
Ch. 4 In Denial 39
Ch. 5 Father Hunger 53
Ch. 6 The Lumpy Family 69
Ch. 7 Murphy's Sisters 83
Ch. 8 The Bad Marriage 99
Ch. 9 After Marriage 115
Ch. 10 Deconstructing Marriage 131
Ch. 11 Unilateral Divorce 143
Ch. 12 The Culture of Courtship 153
Ch. 13 The Great Taboo 173
Ch. 14 The Body of Love 185
Ch. 15 The Divorce Advocates 201
Ch. 16 The Rise of Romantic Divorce 215
Ch. 17 Consuming a Spouse 225
Ch. 18 How Not to Succeed in Reviving Marriage 237
Ch. 19 Re-creating Marriage 247
Ch. 20 The Meaning of Marriage 259
Notes 267
Index 291
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