![]() ![]() Now you come along decades later and say that really wasn't the case. Now, Moynihan was immediately charged with blaming the victim and was dismissed by many academics as barking up the wrong tree. The title of the report was Negro Family: the Case for National Action. ![]() Thinking now just about something like the anniversary of the Moynihan Report, when Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote that report back in 1965 looking at the issue of black poverty, African American poverty, he said that family matters. And have talked about it a great deal, documented it, and written about it. Mohler: You know I have followed your research for so many years. Brad Wilcox welcome to Thinking In Public. Through the National Marriage Project, he is demonstrating why marriage is central to society and why it ought to be central to our concerns as well. ![]() He is one of those researchers, one of those faculty members in one of America's elite universities who's doing the kind of work we should all be glad is being done. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia, his Ph.D. Bradford Wilcox is director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia where he also serves as associate professor of sociology and as a member of the James Madison Society at Princeton University. In order to understand not only the family but what it means to live faithfully in times such as these. What about the whole issue of the role of fathers? Of patriarchy? What about the institution of the family in terms of its resilience over against the challenges of the modern world. Over the last several decades the institution of the family has undergone rather radical transformations. I'm Albert Mohler, your host, and President of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. This is "Thinking in Public", a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about front line theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated) Soft Patriarchs, Firm Realities: A Conversation with Bradford Wilcox ![]()
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