Gruntled Center Title Index
61% of Americans Sleep Together
“95-10” is a Good Centrist Plan to Reduce Abortion
A Blogger's Delight: Meeting Other Bloggers
A Church of Millions Will Never Be Pure
A Church That Is Not Clear About What It Believes Is Not Worth Belonging To
A Glimpse of Islamic Women in Small-Town America
A “Good Divorce” is Still a Divorce
A Minister's Conscience and the Church's Rules
A Standard is a Standard Even If Exceptions Are Allowed
Africa Has Less Promiscuity, But More AIDS
Agenda for the Democratic Congress: Action, Not Recrimination
Amending the Definition of Marriage
An Ideology That Justifies Breaking Things
Anti-Abortion/Pro-Choice Democrats Can Win
Are Academics and Engineers Both "Knowledge Class?"
Black Incomes Surpass Whites in Queens
"Brokeback Mountain" is a Great Movie About Two Men
But What’s in it for Dad? The Transformative Power of Fatherhood
Centre as a Level 3 Family, Part Two
Centre College: the Typical Level 3 Family
Centrists Against Political Pork
Centrist Policy Means Distinguishing the Good, the Bad, and the Tolerated
Chasing Rainbows: The Search for Happiness
Children and Marriage Go Together – Really.
Choice vs. Faithfulness in Family Life
Church Burnings Hit Close to Home
Church Leaders Make Connections Locally
Cities Need to Keep Their Middle Class Staff
"Class Culture" vs. "Privilege and Oppression"
Classification Schemes Classify the Classifier
"Close Relations" Theory Pours Acid on Family Roles
College Drinking: from Academic Pressure, or Family Functioning?
College Drinking, Part 2: Same-Sex Intimacy
College Graduates Have Happier Marriages Because They Apply Family Sociology
College Reunion for the Married
Conservative Magic and Liberal Magic
Contraception and Abortion Create More Poor, Fatherless Kids
Corporate Gentlemen in an Age of Enron
Could Women Thrive at Yale if They Could Respect Their Househusbands?
Deliberate Childlessness: The Anti-Natalist (Mini-) Movement
Diversity Means Same-Sex Marriage is Not Inevitable Everywhere
Divorce is a Polarizing Institution
Divorce is Not the Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow
Do Gen Xers Want Mom Home More Than Boomers Do?
Do Students Email Professors Too Much?
Do Unmarried Households Reign? No, Not Really
Does Cafe Noise Strengthen the Brain?
Does Dutch Gay Marriage Lead to Polygamy? Sort of.
Does Globalization Do Anything Good for Reformed Christianity?
Does "Medium" Show the Best Marriage on Television?
Does Swarthmore Reproduce My Family, or Does My Family Reproduce Swarthmore?
Don't Wait On The World To Change
Doulas: A Good Centrist Family Idea
Dubai Ports World is no Worse Than The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Effects of China’s One-Child Law
Elite Young Women Want Kids and Careers
Evolution and Creation: A Centrist Proposal
Family Firms Build for the Future
Family Sociology: A Centrist Approach
Family Values Congressman Quits For Hitting on Teen Boy
Family Values: Rap vs. Country
Families are Little Islands of Freedom
Fight the Culture of Fear: The Near-Myth of Kidnapping by Strangers
Fighting Monsters in the Night
Fighting the Culture of Fear is THE Centrist Issue
First Female Circumcision Trial in the U.S.
First Wave Feminism vs. Second Wave Feminism
Five for Fighting: A Few Fighting Dems Break Through This Time
For Men at the Bottom, Unmarried Life Nears the 25% Threshold
Form of Government Revision I: Welcome and Openness
Gay Marriage and Polygamy Tie the Knot
Gay Marriage is Not Inevitable: Remember That the Equal Rights Amendment Failed
"Gay Parent" Research Full of Holes
Gay vs. Ex-Gay Christians 1: Defending Christianity
Gay vs. Ex-Gay Christians 2: What Wives Do
Gay vs. Ex-Gay Christians 3: What is Success?
Good News: College Graduates Twice as Likely as High-School Dropouts to Marry Before they Have Kids
Good News: Evangelicals Give the Supreme Court a Catholic Majority
Good News from New Orleans: The Crowds Weren’t Murderous, After All
Good News: More Unplanned Kids Get Born, Anyway
Good News: Teen Pregnancy is Down, and for Good Reasons
Good News: Teen Smoking and Drug Use Down
Governor Warner is Out for Good Reasons – But I am Still Bummed
Great Families vs. Social Darwinism
Hairdressers, Don't Rat Out Your Clients to the Divorce Lawyers!
Happy Sysadmin Appreciation Day - The Perfect New Class Holiday
Happiness is Not the Main Point of Marriage
Harvard's Hissy Fit Costs Them $115 Million
Have Canadians Had Enough of Deconstructing Marriage?
Having an “Honored Guest”: Why Wheaton Should Not Have Fired a Catholic
Here's To Assortative Marriage
How Big is the "Spiritual But Not Religious" Market?
How to Have a Traditional First Date
How to Raise Critical Thinkers
Hurrah for The Bible and Its Influence
Husbands Who Have to Go Be Gay Still Can't Bear to Think About the Kids
Hypergamy Means That the Rich Favor Sons; The Poor, Daughters
If Pirates Oppose Zombies, Do Ninjas Support Them?
If You Are Not Outraged, Perhaps You Are Paying Attention to the Bigger Picture.
In Sweden, All Romance is Teen Romance
Is Corporate Class to Knowledge Class as Gentleman is to Scholar
Is Happy Holidays Worse Than Merry Civil Religion Christmas?
Is Parenthood “National Service”?
Is Polygamy Protected by Privacy?
Is Saying No to Kids a Failure, or a Necessary Discipline?
Is the Global Presbyterian Fellowship Schismatic?
Is the Virgin Birth Essential?
Is Yale Religion Liberal Religion?
Islam's Price for Living in the World: Letting Muslims Convert to Another Faith
Jane Jacobs Was an Urban Giant, Like King Kong
Janet Edwards' Trial Ends in a Shambles
Just in Time for Christmas: Hymen Restoration Surgery
Kentucky’s Mysterious Definition of Marriage
Lawrence Summers Was Right the First Time
Leadership Really Is the Best Investment
Learning to be Individuals: Self-Assertion for the Top Classes, Sucking It Up for the Bottom
Loose Ends of the British Divorce Ruling
Loyalists, Step Up: Volunteer for Examanition Committees
Magical Motherhood for the Upper Middle Class
Mainline Church Marriage: The Middle Way
Male Headship Isn’t as Bad as It’s Cracked Up to Be – Or as Good (Part One)
Male Headship Isn’t as Bad as It’s Cracked Up to Be – Or as Good (Part Two)
Marry Your Baby Daddy – The Book
Marriage and Caste 1: Are Things Worse Now?
Marriage and Caste 2: Education Prevents Divorce
Marriage and Caste 3: Do Spouses Make Marriage, or Does Marriage Make Spouses?
Marriage as a Unitive Act of Complementary Persons
Marriage is Better, and it is Better Policy to Say So
Marriage is Not a Creation of the State (and We Should Keep it That Way)
Marriage Makes Men and Women More Equal
Marriage vs. “Close Relations” Matters to the Church
Marriages Have Privacy Because Marriage is Public
Married Parents Really Are Happier
Martin Luther King: Great Man. Cheater.
Massachusetts Gay Marriage: the Wrong Way and the Right Way
Mayberry Machiavellis Exploit Evangelicals – Still
Misstep on the Minority Report
Mixed Feelings About the Big Money
More Men Not Married; More Men Not Working
Most Business School Students Cheat
Multiculturalization or Immigrant Renewal?
"Naked, Fragile, Unenforceable Agreement"
National Greatness and the Ecology of Families 1
National Greatness and the Ecology of Families 2 - The Ecology of Families
National Greatness and the Ecology of Families 3 - What are Strong Families?
National Greatness and the Ecology of Families 4 - What I Mean by National Greatness
National Greatness and the Ecology of Families 5 - The Class of Great Families Rules a Great Nation
Need to Balance The Church Headquarters Budget? Fire the Prophets
New Jersey Judicial Activism is Still Wrong
No-fault Divorce Means a Bigger State
No-Fault Divorce Presumes Two Incomes
No Day But Today vs. Posterity Lost
No, New York Should Not Ban Fat
"No Torture" is Good Stewardship
Normalizing Polygamy: The Cultural Issue of 2020
Oh Lord, No: The Leading Evangelical Quits in Gay Sex Scandal
One-Flesh Union of Complementary Persons
“Only Marry a Good Man” vs. “The Power of the Vow”
Overall, GA 2006 Was a Centrist Assembly
Parents are Productive Sociologists
Parents Believe in Sex Differences
Parents Support School Vouchers
Picking the Setting for Mate Selection
Potty Parity is a Good Centrist Idea
Presbyteries Should Not Cover for Protesting Congregations
Promiscuity is Not Androgynous
Promoting Marriage is a Public Good
PUP Passes - Let the Local Application Begin
Raising Boys Without Men (Part One)
Raising Boys Without Men (Part Two)
Recruiting Vandals is No Way to Teach
Religion Matters More When Kids Are Old Enough to Want Real Answers
Religious Cleansing is as Shameful as Ethnic Cleansing
Religious Professors Give More to Students
Reviving the Draft Just to Make a Political Point Would be a Terrible Idea, Congressman Rangel.
“Rule of Thumb” Rescued From Ignominy
Same-Simian Relations in Spain
Second Generation Polygamy Raises Girls to be Child Brides
Serial Monogamy, Serial Polygamy, or Worse?
She Who Gets Custody Files First
Should Christians Dump the Public Schools? Nope.
Should We Skip Kids in Order to Get Rich?
Should You Get Serious About Marriage in College?
Simulated Authenticity on Beale Street
Sociobiology 1: Nature vs. Nurture
Sociobiology 2: Love Still Matters to Selfish Genes
Sociobiology 3: Evolution and Intelligent Design
Sociobiology 4: The Grandmother Hypothesis
Sociobiology 5: Do Women Select for Patriarchy?
Space Your Babies Close Enough to Mess Each Other's Roles
Student Loan Debt is Highly Effective Contraception
Students Show More Sense Than Grownups In T-Shirt Case
Supporting Student Moms on Campus
Taking Sex Differences Seriously
The 80% Minority Doesn't Shop Alone
The “Adults First” Divorce Culture Lives On
The Bank of Mom and Dad is the Right Way to Transfer Wealth
The Big Picture of the Presbyterian Church (USA)
The Clash of Civilizations Over Women
The College/Not-College Class Gap Is Growing
The Constitutional Right to Pets
"The Da Vinci Code" is a Competent B Movie. Period.
The “Daughter Track,” Part Two
The Domestic Face of Feminization of Poverty
The Education Crossover in Divorce Attitudes
The eHarmony Guy Delivers Some of the Goods
The Evangelizing New Atheists Will Lose More Centrists Than They Gain
The Evolving Upper Class: Smart or Handsome?
The Family Car: Minivans Beat SUVs
The Frustrating Necessity of Family Policy
The Global Face of Feminization of Poverty
The Glorious Day Is Finally Here!
The Great American Brass Band Festival: Americana at its Best
The Harvard-Yale Study at 20: Still Missing the Point
The Invisible Christian Movie Line Makes the "Cosmopolitan" Cities the True Parochial Backwaters.
The Most Babies Ever to Unmarried Moms
The Most Encouraging Family Statistic I Know
The National Church Sets Standards; the Local Governing Body Applies Them to Individuals
The Opposite of Generativity, Take Two
The Ordinary Heroism of the “Daughter Track”
The Polygamy Crisis May Come Sooner Than I Thought
The Pope Defends Reason; Churches Burn
The Posse Foundation is Reshaping the Leadership Class, One Campus at a Time
The “Protestant Deformation” Undermines Families
The Scary Children of Goodridge
The Society Safe for Sectarianism
"The Squid and the Whale" is a Harrowing Divorce Movie
The Top Public Intellectuals are Not Moms
The Twentysomething Bride is the Happiest Wife
The Unwritten Sexual Constitution of Our Civilization
The Work of the Firm vs. the Relationships Within the Firm
These Times Are A-Changin’: Trends in Fatherhood
Today's Teen Anecdote: Nationalism and Pokemon
Toolkit: Wrong in So Many Ways
Toward an Old Paradigm for the Study of Family Life
Turning China's Elite into its Next Ruling Class
Very Religious State Universities
Virtual Wedding, Real Brideprice
Wall Street Goes With Family As Well As Combat Goes With Family
Washing Out the Jewishness of "The Squid and the Whale"
We Elected a Centrist Government – Now Let it Govern
Weird Names and the Fantasy of Uniqueness
What Conservatives and Liberals Did Right
What I think Principled Centrism Means
What Men Really Want, Part Two
What’s Wrong with the Good Divorce
When It Comes to Abortion, the Husband is Not Just Another Guy
When Imagining Their Future, Men See Clear Jobs and Hazy Families; Women See the Reverse.
Where the Action is in Family Policy
Which Part of the Class Ladder is Harder to Climb - the Bottom Half, or the Top?
Who Sets the Housework Standards, Anyway?
Who is Television's Knowledge Class Heroine?
Who Thinks Gay Marriage and Polygamy are Connected? Judges Do.
Who Won the Moderator's Race? Centerism
Why Baptists Can Adapt to Same-Sex Marriage Laws Better Than Presbyterians Can
Why Don't Homosexuals Rush to Marry Where They Can?
Why, Exactly, is Polygamy Illegal?
Why I Don’t Believe in Children
Why Mainline Church Leaders are Ambivalent About Promoting Marriage, Part I
Why Society is Interested in Marriage.
"Wicked" is Great With Teenagers
Will Immigrants Renew Marriage?
Will Republicans Ever Deliver to "Family Voters?"
Would Disestablishing Marriage Be Like Disestablishing Religion?