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Fix the Home, Fix the Nation

Book in Progress

An Argument Worth Having.

Fix the Home, Fix the Nation explores the relationship between the American family and the institutions that shape our national life.

Through personal stories, historical context, observations from different cultures, and practical frameworks, the book examines how families have changed, what responsibilities remain essential, and what it means to prepare the next generation for adulthood.

The objective is not to romanticize the past, prescribe one family structure, or suggest that good parenting guarantees good outcomes. It is to ask better questions about the institution where so much of human development begins.

Working Table of Contents

The manuscript so far

Chapter titles and order may evolve before publication. Target publication: late 2027.

Introduction

The Conversation We're Not Having

PART I — THE FOUNDATION

  1. Chapter 1

    Every Institution Is Downstream from the Home

    What if America's biggest problems share the same upstream source?

  2. Chapter 2

    The American Family Across Time

    How differently did families actually live?

  3. Chapter 3

    How Did We Get Here?

    What changed around the American family—and what did those changes produce?

  4. Chapter 4

    The First Government

    Why has the family always mattered?

  5. Chapter 5

    What Are We Trying to Produce?

    What does it mean to raise a good, capable, responsible human being?

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  6. Chapter 6

    What Does the Data Actually Say?

    How much do family structure and stability actually matter?

PART II — THE CONSEQUENCES

  1. Chapter 7

    The Transfer of Responsibility

    What happens when families stop doing what only families can do?

  2. Chapter 8

    The Crisis of Fatherlessness

    What does a child lose when a good father isn't there?

  3. Chapter 9

    Where Have the Adults Gone?

    What happens when responsibility becomes optional?

  4. Chapter 10

    Schools Can't Raise Your Children

    Have we asked schools to do a job they were never designed to do?

Additional chapters are in development. The complete table of contents will be shared as the manuscript progresses.

The book is still being written.

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