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Raising Kids in a Family Unfriendly Culture, by John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Raising Kids in a Family Unfriendly Culture, by John M. Grondelski, Ph.D.

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Timothy P. Carney’s new book is a superbly written tour de force contending that multiple, cumulative factors make parenting much harder than it needs to be.

Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be
By Timothy P. Carney, HarperCollins, 2024, Hardcover, 344 pages

HarperCollins, in contrast to so much of the “curated” publishing industry, is promoting real discussion about real issues facing America and her long-term welfare. In February, it published Brad Wilcox’s Get Married!, a book not just enumerating but refuting many of the myths responsible for why Americans delay marriage and why American culture marginalizes it. HarperCollins has followed up with another excellent book: Timothy P. Carney’s Family Unfriendly.

These books form a valuable pair because the problems they address, while independent, are interrelated. The first problem is getting people to take the marital leap. More and more people either defer it, resort to counterfeits, or ignore it altogether.

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