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Article: The death of the nuclear family.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
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- Conscience
- Article date:
- December 22, 2004
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RELIGIONISTS BOUND BY nostalgia or ideology about "traditional family values" will benefit from reading Balfour Brickner's "The Death of the Nuclear Family: Towards a New Sexual Ethic in America" (Summer/ Autumn 2004). On so many scores, the rabbi has it right.
Yes, we're witnessing (and contributing to) a seismic demographic and cultural shift, quite likely one that is irreversible, that has displaced the nuclear family and multiplied intimacy and family options. Yes, increasing numbers of people, having come of age about the goodness of human sexuality, are insisting on their moral and legal rights as sexual persons. And, yes, religions have wisdom and ...