“Hurtin’ Words,” “Free Bird,” and Family Values
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This chapter discusses multiple perspectives on whether white southerners faced new family crises in the 1970s. Legislators passed divorce reform laws in the early 1970s that made divorce far easier and less public. The music of the early 1970s Southern Rock Movement, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Allman Brothers, and others, upheld a “Free Bird” ideal of endless rambling with no family responsibilities. Church groups responded by debating whether divorced church members should remarry and, more broadly, by including divorce reform in their list of moral failures to be addressed by the Religious Right.
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pp. 84-104
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