{"id":35772,"date":"2012-11-20T17:30:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T17:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/david_brooks-is_the_age_of_possibility_making_the_two_parent_family_one_of\/"},"modified":"2012-11-20T17:30:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T17:30:54","slug":"david_brooks-is_the_age_of_possibility_making_the_two_parent_family_one_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35772","title":{"rendered":"David Brooks&#8211;Is The Age of Possibility, Making the Two Parent Family one of Many Choices, Good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At some point over the past generation, people around the world entered what you might call the age of possibility. They became intolerant of any arrangement that might close off their personal options.<\/p>\n<p>The transformation has been liberating, and it\u2019s leading to some pretty astounding changes. For example, for centuries, most human societies forcefully guided people into two-parent families. Today that sort of family is increasingly seen as just one option among many&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>My view is that the age of possibility is based on a misconception. People are not better off when they are given maximum personal freedom to do what they want. They\u2019re better off when they are enshrouded in commitments that transcend personal choice \u201d\u201d commitments to family, God, craft and country.<\/p>\n<p>The surest way people bind themselves is through the family&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/16\/opinion\/brooks-the-age-of-possibility.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point over the past generation, people around the world entered what you might call the age of possibility. They became intolerant of any arrangement that might close off their personal options. The transformation has been liberating, and it\u2019s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35772\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,101,582,149,119,98,129,108,95,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-children","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-globalization","category-marriage-family","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}