The ‘basis for a just, free, and stable society’: Institutional Homophobia and Governance at the Family Research Council

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
David James Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Research Council ◽  
Family Research ◽  
The Family

Christian Homeschoolers

2018 ◽  
pp. 201-214
Author(s):  
James Hudnut-Beumler
Keyword(s):  
Research Council ◽  
Racial Integration ◽  
Family Research ◽  
Alternative Lifestyle ◽  
Family Science ◽  
The Family ◽  
Strong Commitment ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Contemporary Practice

Framed by a visit to the Teach Them Diligently Christian Homeschooling Convention, the largest event of its kind, this chapter explores the large and growing phenomena of Christian homeschooling. Christian homeschooling differs from its secular, alternative lifestyle counterpart by a strong commitment to biblical teachings about family, science, and a concomitant conservative antipathy to so-called “government schooling.” At its oldest and simplest it embraces Anabaptist groups, who offer the most basic lessons to the rest of the community. Ken Hamm, and “young Earth creationists” (who argue for six actual days of creation and a maximum Earth age of 10,000 years are even more influential in the community, as are the Family Research Council, and groups urging women to have as many children as possible for biblical reasons. One of the interesting features of the movement is how many of today’s southern homeschooling parents were themselves the products of an earlier generation of the “Christian academies” devised in the 1960s and 1970s to avoid racial integration. Now that these same academies are mostly integrated, there is some evidence that the contemporary practice of educating one’s children at home (an activity differentially preferred by whites) has the effect of furthering educational segregation.

The Family, Research, and Prime-Time Television in Alcohol Education

1986 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. De Foe ◽  
Warren Breed
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Prime Time ◽  
Health Practices ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Alcohol Education ◽  
Family Research ◽  
Drinking Problems ◽  
The Family

Television programs contain materials relevant to health practices generally, and to drinking problems in particular. Research has found that these materials are often inaccurate and misleading. A method called cooperative consultation has succeeded in transmitting these findings to writers and producers in the industry. The response from the industry has been encouraging. The method is illustrated by using two programs and their contrasting depiction of how family members responded to an alcoholic husband and father.

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