Family and Civilization

Introduction vii Allan C. Carlson Introduction 1(20) Family Types and Civilization 21(16) Fluctuation of the Family Bond 37(8) From Late Roman to Trustee Familism 45(12) The Trustee Family of the Dark Ages 57(18) Rise of the Modern Domestic Family 75(18) The Rise of Modern Atomism from the Reformation to the Nineteenth Century 93(30) Philosophy and Familism in the Nineteenth Century 123(18) The Nineteenth-Century Atomistic Family 141(24) Disruption of Public Control of Familism 165(14) The Western Family and the Purposes of Family Sociology 179(6) The Dynamics of Familism 185(18) The Trustee Family System---Causal Analysis 203(18) The Domestic Family System---Causal Analysis 221(20) The Atomistic Family System---Causal Analysis 241(22) The Future of Family and Civilization 263(58) CRITICAL ESSAYS Family and Civilization: Carle Zimmerman Confronts the West's Third Family Crisis 287(18) Bryce Christensen Demography is Destiny: The Fate of the Western Family and Western Civilization 305(16) James Kurth Notes 321(6) Index 327