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The Natural Family Where It Belongs emphasizes the vital bond of the natural family to an agrarian-like household, where the sexual merges with the economic through marriage and child-rearing and where the family is defined by its material efforts. This agrarianism is alive and well in twenty-first century America and Europe. Allan C. Carlson argues that recreating a family-cantered economy portends renewal of the true democracy dreamed of by Washington, Adams, and Jefferson.

Critically well received, this paperback edition makes The Natural Family Where It Belongs available to teachers and students of twentieth century American social history and the American family system. It will also be welcomed by practitioners involved with the new agrarian revival of the last twenty-five years. As Carlson demonstrates, agrarian households represent the touchstones of a sustainable human future.

Written by one of the most prestigious and respected scholars in the field, The Natural Family Where It Belongs will influence how todays family life is viewed in America and abroad. This volume is the latest in Transactions Marriage and Family Studies series.

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The Natural Family Where It Belongs First published 2014 by Transaction - photo 1
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Natural Family
Where It Belongs
First published 2014 by Transaction Publishers
Published 2017 by Routledge
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Library of Congress Catalog Number: 2013012446
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Carlson, Allan C.
The natural family where it belongs: new agrarian essays / Allan C.
Carlson.
pages cm
1. FamiliesUnited States . 2. Rural familiesUnited States .
3. Country lifeUnited States. 4. Sociology, RuralUnited States.
I. Title.
HQ536.C374 2013
306.850973dc23
2013012446
ISBN 13: 978-1-4128-5284-5 (hbk)
To the memory and legacy of Pitirim Sorokin and
Carle Zimmerman
Contents
In his book, The Outline of Sanity, G. K. Chesterton remarks that It is true that I believe in fairy talesin the sense that I marvel so much at what does exist that I am readier to admit what might. He goes on to describe a fairy tale of his own imagination: the recreation in early twentieth century England of a peasant class, a rural society composed of happy families residing and working on their own small plots of land and sustained by a vital rural culture.
If already a fairy tale in the England of 1926, such enthusiasm for agrarian ideals may seem an almost pathological vision for early twenty-first century America. All the same, the agrarian prospect was ably summarized in a relatively recent essay by the English anthropologist Hugh Brody:
A family is busy in the countryside. Mother is making bread, churning butter, attending to hens and ducks that live in the yards and pens beside the house, preparing food for everyone. Father is in the fields, ploughing the soil, cutting wood, fixing walls, providing sustenance. Children explore and play and help and sit at the family table. Grandma or Grandpa sits in a chair by the fire. Every day is long and filled with the activities of this family. And the activities are contained, given purpose and comfort, by a piece of countryside at the centre of which is home.... The family in its farm is the family where it belongs.
This volume holds to the remarkable thesis that agrarianism is alive in twenty-first century America andif not exactly wellshowing clear and enticing prospects for the future. It also emphasizes the evident bond of the healthy, natural family to an agrarianor agrarian-likehousehold, where the sexual and the economic are merged through marriage and child-bearing and where the family is defined in considerable measure by its material efforts. The common thesis is that family renewal will only occur as these bonds and goals are recreated and strengthened in the years and decades ahead.
The vision behind this book can be easily compressed: These chapters look toward a landscape of family homes, gardens, and small farm-steads busy with useful tasks and energized by the laughter of many children. They see parents as the primary educators of their young. They celebrate homesteads engaged in the care of young, aged, and infirmed family members. They point to the recreation, in new forms, of a family-centered economy. And they portend a renewal of the true democracy dreamed of by George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson.
This book has four parts. In the first part, I describe The Natural Family at Home. It provides, in effect, an anthropology of this type of household, which distinguishes it from other forms of human cohabitation. While presenting an ideal type of agrarian life, this description rests on the premises that the natural family is real, universal in terms of possibility, and rooted in human nature. These truths rest in turn on the testimony from both history and the social, biological, and psychological sciences.
The second part examines twentieth century Displacements from this normative order. New economic, ideological, and political pressures left the natural family alienated from its true home. Chapters examine the specific effects of industrial capitalism, gender ideology, and war. The human costs of these changes proved to be vast.
Representative Dissents from this transformation find expression in the third part. The voices identified here varied in discipline: some wrote in the language of literature and poetry; others used the constructs of economics. They shared sentiments of grief over the loss of a humane order and anger toward those who willed such a change. In these ways, they resembled prophets.
In the fourth and final part, I describe Movements Home: the rebirth of family-centered habitation; the reassertion of a gendered order; and the remarkable return of family-scale agriculture. These changes suggest that the twenty-first century shall witness renewal of the natural family on the places where it belongs.
Notes
. G. K. Chesterton, The Outline of Sanity (Norfolk, VA: IHS Press, 2001), 2930, 34, 70.
. Hugh Brody, Nomads and Settlers, in Town and Country, ed. Anthony Barnett and Roger Scruton (London: Vintage, 1999), 12 (emphasis added).
. Evidence supporting this statement can be found in: Allan Carlson and Paul Mero, The Natural Family: Bulwark of Liberty (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2008), Chapters 46.
The natural family rests on submission to the divine spirit and will. These are manifested in human nature and in the broader order of creation. All social constructs strive for harmony with divine intent.
The first and most crucial social bond is marriage. Marriage holds this distinction for it is natural and self-renewing, rooted in the mutual attraction of man to woman, both of whom feel their incompleteness when existing alone. They come together, of necessity, so that the human species might continue. Most cultures place marriage at or near the center of elaborate religious ritual, but the marital institution can be found even among tribal, animist societies, testifying to its universality.
In this sense, marriage is the only true anarchist institution. That is, it exists prior to other human bonds, be they village, city, state, or nation, and it has the endless capacity for renewal, even in periods of persecution, social decline, or moral degradation. In the modern age, each new marriage is an affi rmation of life, of love (real or potential), and of continuity against the darkness which threatens to overwhelm the human spirit. Every new marriage is an act of rebellion against ambitious political and ideological powers that would reduce human activity to their purposes. And each real marriage contains within it the power of biological reproduction, a throw of the genetic dice that brings to life new human beings, unique and unpredictable in their qualities.
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