Brent Waters examines the historical roots and contemporary implications of the virtual disappearance of the family in late liberal and Christian social and pol

An alternative voice in the culture wars over 'family values'. Brent Waters proposes a normative account of the family's role in social and political ordering t

With crisp prose and intellectual fairness, Family Politics traces the treatment of the family in the philosophies of leading political thinkers of the modern w

Explores family not as a problem but as a mystery in order to understand its current controversial character.

During the last three decades of the twentieth century, evangelical leaders and conservative politicians developed a political agenda that thrust "family values