Fighting Over the Family

In spite of endless analyses and premature obituaries, the subject of the American family continues to draw on a seemingly bottomless well of feelings. Barbara Ehrenreich’s witty and original account of contemporary antifamily attitudes and Brigitte and Peter Berger’s measured neoconservative account of class, culture, and beliefs about the family provide sharply different explanations for the current conflicts over the family. In The Hearts of Men, Barbara hrenreich argu...