Mark J. Cherry - Sex, Family, and the Culture Wars

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Library of Congress Catalog Number: 2015047867

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Names: Cherry, Mark J., author.

Title: Sex, family, and the culture wars / Mark J. Cherry.

Description: New Brunswick, New Jersey:Transaction Publishers, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015047867 (print) | LCCN 2016004556 (ebook) | ISBN 9781412863094 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781412863315 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781412863490 ()

Subjects: LCSH: Sexual ethics. | Families. | Sex. | Culture conflict.

Classification: LCC HQ32 .C54 2016 (print) | LCC HQ32 (ebook) | DDC 176/.4--dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015047867

ISBN 13: 978-1-4128-6309-4 (hbk)

ISBN 13: 978-1-4128-6331-5 (pbk)

Without the love, friendship, support, and guidance of many, this volume would never have been written. Throughout the drafting of this manuscript, I benefited from numerous discussions and comments on ancestral versions of each chapter. In particular, this volume benefited significantly from detailed conversations with H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Ana Iltis, and Fan Ruiping. I am deeply in their debt. Others have read portions of the manuscript in various stages or through conversations provided insights into key topics, often helping me reframe its central arguments or see challenges anew. Through the multitude of names, I will surely fail to remember them all, I can only mention a few among the many who have been so generous: James Stacey Taylor, Jeff Bishop, Ryan Nash, Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes, Fr. Iulian Anitei, Fr. Emil Jurcan, Fr. Dumitru Vanca, Fr. Alin Albu, Brian Partridge, Griffin Trotter, Bruce Foltz, David Bradshaw, Rico Vitz, Nicholas Capaldi, David Solomon, B. Andrew Lustig, Benjamin E. Hippen, Lisa Rasmussen, Mary Ann Gardell Cutter, George Khushf, Laurence McCullough, Christopher Tollefsen, Victor Saenz, and Jennifer Bulcock. I also received much good advice from Howard Schneiderman, who read the manuscript in total. I am especially indebted to my friend Professor H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., whose encouragement was essential to the completion of this project. Having acknowledged much excellent guidance, I admit that I have not always followed it. Any mistakes and missteps are, of course, my own.

In addition, I wish to recognize the ongoing generosity of St. Edwards University, especially George Martin, Donna M. Jurick, SND and Mary Boyd, the School of Humanities, particularly Sharon Nell, Louis T. Brusatti and Steven Rodenborn, as well as my colleagues in the Department of Philosophy, William J. Zanardi, Peter A. Wake, Stephen Dilley, Jack Green Musselman, Jennifer Greene, and Danney Ursery. In various fashions, discussions with my colleagues aided me as I shaped this volume and brought it to completion. Research for this manuscript began during a semester-long sabbatical, for which I am very grateful.

Distantly ancestral versions of some elements of , and 7 appeared in Building Social and Economic Capital: The Family and Medical Savings Accounts. The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 37(2012): 52644; Ignoring the Data and Endangering Children: Why the Mature Minor Standard for Medical Decision Making Must be Abandoned. The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 38(2013): 31531; Parental Authority and Pediatric Bioethical Decision Making. The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 35(2010): 55372; Re-thinking the Role of the Family in Medical Decision Making. The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 40(2015): 45172.

My deepest gratitude is for my parents and in-laws, wife and sons, who have taught me more about the lifeworld of the family than the dry world of basic research ever could: Frank and Charlotte Cherry as well as Carl and Lois Dorman; but especially Mollie, Jacob, Thaddeus, and Matthias for love, patience, and many distractions; practical jokes and math homework; middle-school and high-school bands, karate studios, video games, action movies, and driving lessons; trips to the park and the swimming pool as well as for their willingness to hike up and down mountains on what are supposed to be relaxing family vacations. Without Mollie and our sons, life would be decidedly incomplete. As always, it is Mollie to whom this book is dedicated, for without her abundant love and virtues, too numerous to count, few things would be possible.