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Entry: Post-Christian America Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/post_christian_america#27546 Post contents: "Since the fall of Rome to our own time, nations have believed and acted on the belief that marriage and traditional families are the cinderblocks on which a society must be built." There may be a problem with historical facts here. When I last checked, the consensus among historians of the family was that our current focus on monogamous, husband-wife nuclear family only came into being in the late medieval period. Before that people were parts of clans and marriage was a far more flexible concept -- not to talk about monogamy. The oversight may be significant, because understanding the reasons why the monogamous nuclear family came into being might enable us to understand -- and influence -- the reasons why it is now fading away. Sent at: 2008 12 01