The politics of family. (Cover Story).
American Prospect, The, April, 2002 by Kuttner, Robert
Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is--Love, forgive us!--cinders, ashes, dust.
--JOHN KEATS, 1819
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS SUDDENLY VERY interested in marriage. The principal target of this matchmaking is the welfare population, though many traditionalists would turn the marriage movement into a generalized crusade. It adds up to something that most conservatives ordinarily abhor--social engineering, and in the most intimate of human realms.
Beneath the policy debates lies a much broader cultural clash, one that has caught liberals somewhat off guard and even ...
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