This fascinating book compares progressive and more religiously conservative views and their differing impacts on the health of families.• Ten guidelines for healthy families in the 21st century• A timeline of changes in families, starting with the late 1600s• A brief chronology, from the 4th century through the 18th, showing how the "gene for theocracy" was implanted into the Christian churches• A bibliography listing a broad range of books and articles about past and current events, facts, figures, and people relative to ongoing changes in families