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Family Classes: Rethinking Contraceptive Choice, Naomi R. Cahn, June Carbone
Family Classes: Rethinking Contraceptive Choice, Naomi R. Cahn, June Carbone
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The political attention paid to moral values - in the context of the high profile fights over abortion, homosexuality, and abstinence education - has developed over the past quarter century in ideological terms as though race and class no longer existed. In fact, the changing understandings that attend family formation reflect a long term shift in the pathways to middle class life which has created a new technocratic elite - an elite that invests heavily in both men and women’s advanced degrees, and has remade family life to its advantage. The success of the new model, which we call the …