Children at risk : the battle for the hearts and minds of our kids

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1. The changing world of children : Conditioning and conformity ; Consequences of experimentation ; The thorny path ; Legislating immorality ; No safe sex ; Accepting the challenge -- 2. The second great civil war : A wasteland of values ; The changing world order ; The liberal power block ; The assault of secularism ; The political machinery ; Suffering silent defeat ; The educational battleground ; A moral victory ; The counterattack -- 3. Love and sex : Rejecting moral traditions ; Education to excess ; Moral outrage ; Confounding the experts ; Higher ed takes the low road ; Legitimate expression -- 4. Questions and answers : A circle of love? ; The secular humanist agenda ; Is abstinence impossible? ; Parents being involved ; The media bias ; The passionate adversaries ; The impact of rock and roll ; The engines of influence ; The moral urgency of activism ; The new civil disobedience ; The right to die ; Legalizing euthanasia ; Giving up parents' rights ; Tax burden on the family ; Congressional bias ; Getting organized and involved ; A word of introduction -- 5. Washington and the family : Inside the administration ; Washington is different ; The power crowd ; A case study ; Fire on the hill ; Facing the music ; Tackling the controversy ; Government must be family friendly ; Governments greed ; A personal observation. 6. Thirty years on the slippery slope : Establishing the guideposts ; Why are we losing? ; Whatever happened to Ozzie and Harriet? ; Setting the record straight ; The legal assault on the family ; Revolutionary language -- 7. Caring for the children : The Scandinavian experience ; The Washington debate ; Institutional hazards ; Public disinformation ; Whose little girl? ; No substitute for mother's love -- 8. Behold, I set before you life and death : Out of that darkness ... toward that light ; Abortion and slavery ; Roe v. Wade ; Who lives? Who dies? ; A personal note ; A president's tear -- 9. Mothers and fathers : Motherhood under siege ; Who deserves a break? ; He says children are the problem ; A world without mothers ; Flight from fatherhood ; The penalty of permissiveness -- 10. Freedom or slavery? : Aliens in their own land ; Roots that sustain us ; Some startling facts ; What's going on? ; How about higher education? ; But if not ... ; Restoring educational traditions ; Faithful, to what? 11. Art as an ideological weapon : Setting priorities ; Revisionist rhetoric ; Nihilism on the march ; When art is true and beautiful ; Nobility of purpose ; Keeping our focus -- 12. That's entertainment : Numbing the minds of the young ; The devaluation of values ; The unprotected majority ; Rock music ; The power of the purse -- 13. The battle over words : The value of words ; Hard core denial ; The long range implications ; The one way mirror ; The incredible worth of words -- 14. Faith of our fathers : Our history ; Reciting the evidence ; The Supreme Court ; Going to a higher power ; The consensus breaks down ; A white house story ; Natural compassion ; Religion in the classroom ; Musical disharmony ; The naked public square ; The religious right ; A case of flagrant villainy ; Faith ; What do we want? -- 15. Where do we go from here? : Dying from within ; Designer abortions ; Regaining America's historic values ; Playing the odds ; Containing the costs ; Educational free enterprise ; Linking up, and looking up.