Family Politics by Scott Yenor

My Thesis topic has been accepted and tomorrow I will be getting my first book in the mail for research. Scott Yenor is a Professor at Boise State and released this book in February of this year. If I understood correctly Dr. Lawler, my thesis advisor, actually did a review on this book. He put the book and the author in high regards. Dr. Yenor is very strongly in favor of the family and his new book should provide strong evidence for my paper.

When I first found this book, I felt like it addressed my topic perfectly. Here is the book's product description from Amazon.

With crisp prose and intellectual fairness, Family Politics traces the treatment of the family in the philosophies of leading political thinkers of the modern world. What is family? What is marriage? In an effort to address contemporary society's disputes over the meanings of these human social institutions, Scott Yenor carefully examines a roster of major and unexpected modern political philosophers from Locke and Rousseau to Hegel and Marx to Freud and Beauvoir. He lucidly presents how these individuals developed an understanding of family in order to advance their goals of political and social reform. Through this exploration, Yenor unveils the effect of modern liberty on this foundational institution and argues that the quest to pursue individual autonomy has undermined the nature of marriage and jeopardizes its future.