Brave New Families

Brave New Families
Author: Judith Stacey
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1998-07-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780520214002

A study of how the traditional nuclear family has been supplanted by a variety of new relationships that are not defined by blood ties and traditional gender roles. The text explores the boundaries of the American family and the relationship between family and work.

Brave New Families

Brave New Families
Author: Scott B. Rae
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group (MI)
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1996
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Brave New Families explores reproductive technologies from an evangelical viewpoint and identifies and organizes principles that cover bioethical issues. Rae bases considerations on biblical grounds and discusses such topics as surrogate motherhood, prenatal genetic testing, artificial insemination, and the moral status of fetuses and embryos.256 pp.

Brave New Home

Brave New Home
Author: Diana Lind
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2020-10-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1541742648

This smart, provocative look at how the American Dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare explores how new trends in housing can help us live better. Over the past century, American demographics and social norms have shifted dramatically. More people are living alone, marrying later in life, and having smaller families. At the same time, their lifestyles are changing, whether by choice or by force, to become more virtual, more mobile, and less stable. But despite the ways that today's America is different and more diverse, housing still looks stuck in the 1950s. In Brave New Home, Diana Lind shows why a country full of single-family houses is bad for us and our planet, and details the new efforts underway that better reflect the way we live now, to ensure that the way we live next is both less lonely and more affordable. Lind takes readers into the homes and communities that are seeking alternatives to the American norm, from multi-generational living, in-law suites, and co-living to microapartments, tiny houses, and new rural communities. Drawing on Lind's expertise and the stories of Americans caught in or forging their own paths outside of our cookie-cutter housing trap, Brave New Home offers a diagnosis of the current American housing crisis and a radical re-imagining of future possibilities.

Brave New Stepfamilies

Brave New Stepfamilies
Author: Susan D. Stewart
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2007
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

'Brave New Stepfamilies' brings to light the kinds of stories largely absent from the stepfamily literature. This book acknowledges and highlights the social and demographic changes that are rapidly modifying the nature of stepfamily life. In addition, it provides a glimpse of the benefits as well.

Brave New World

Brave New World
Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher: Rosetta Books
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2011-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0795311257

This classic novel of a perfectly engineered society is “one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the twentieth century” (The Wall Street Journal). Half a millennium from now, in the World State, the watchword is that every one belongs to every one else. No matter what class of human you are bred to be—from the intellectual Alphas to the Epsilons who provide the manual labor—you are a part of the efficient, well-oiled whole. You are nourished, secure, and blissfully serene thanks to the freely distributed drug called soma. And while sex is strongly encouraged, the old way of procreation is forbidden, eliminating even the pains of childbirth. But when a man and woman journey beyond these confines to where the “savages” reside, and bring back two outsiders, the cracks begin to show. Named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century by the Modern Library, Brave New World is one of the first truly dystopian novels. Influenced by the historic events of Huxley’s era yet as relevant today as ever, it is a remarkable depiction of the conflict between progress and the human spirit. “Chilling. . . . That he gave us the dark side of genetic engineering in 1932 is amazing.” —Providence Journal-Bulletin “It is a frightening experience, indeed, to discover how much of his satirical prediction of a distant future became reality in so short a time.” —The New York Times Book Review

Brave New Schools

Brave New Schools
Author: Berit Kjos
Publisher:
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1995
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781565073883

Crossing political and departmental lines, the educational system is molding the minds of our children as a means to transform society. With examples from public school materials, Kjos shows how pagan spirituality is being taught in the classroom in subtle and overt ways and how parental influences are being undermined. Strong and informative, this could be the most important book a Christian parent will read.

In the Name of the Family

In the Name of the Family
Author: Judith Stacey
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1997-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780807004333

Prominent cultural critic Judith Stacey offers a ringing rebuttal to the rhetoric of "family values" with this powerful argument for accepting family diversity-including a strong new case for legal same-sex marriage.

Modern Families

Modern Families
Author: Joshua Gamson
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2015-09-10
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 147984246X

The kinds of families we see today are different than they were even a decade ago as paths to parenthood have been rejiggered by technology, activism, and law. Gamson brings us extraordinary family creation tales that illuminate this changing world of contemporary kinship. He tells a variety of unconventional family-creation tales-- adoption and assisted reproduction, gay and straight parents, coupled and single, and multi-parent families-- set against the social, legal, and economic contexts in which they were made.

Because You're My Family

Because You're My Family
Author: Missy Robertson
Publisher: Freedom Island
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781955550307

BRAVE Books partnered with Missy Robertson to write "Because You're My Family," a Christian children's book that teaches kids about the importance of family and unconditional love.