In an Anti-Family Way - The work of Stephanie Coontz.(historian and author who sees marriage merely as economic)

National Review | October 15, 2001| | Copyright

Stephanie Coontz is on a mission: She wants to make the world safe for divorce. "We are kidding ourselves," she says, "if we think the solution to the economic difficulties of America's children lies in getting their parents back together."

Coontz is now considered one of America's leading experts on the family. A professor of history at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., she has written two books-The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (1992) and The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America's Changing Families (1997)-that ...

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