Naomi Cahn is the John Theodore Fey Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School, a Senior Fellow at the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, and a member of the Yale Cultural Cognition Project, for which she and her co-investigators have received outside funding to conduct research on public attitudes towards gay and lesbian parenting.June Carbone is the Edward A. Smith/Missouri Chair of Law, the Constitution and Society at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Professor Carbone writes extensively about the legal issues surrounding marriage, divorce, and family organization, especially within the context of the recent revolutions in biotechnology. She is the author of From Partners to Parents: The Second Revolution in Family Law and co-author of the third edition of Family Law, with Leslie Harris and the late Lee Teitelbaum.

• Introduction ; Part One: Family Maps ; 1. Moral Demography ; 2. Sexual History ; 3. The Age of Division ; 4. Personality, Politics, and Religion ; Part Two: The Legal Map ; 5. Contraception: Securing the Pathways to Blue Family Life ; 6. Abortion, Law and the Cognitive Map ; 7. The Irrationality of Adolescence: What the Adults Are Really Fighting Over ; 8. The Marrying Laws ; 9. Custody and Compromise ; Part Three: The Map to the Future ; 10. Marriage Advice in Shades of Pink ; 11. Making Ready for Baby: Painting the Nursery Sky Blue ; 12. Work and Family: Retooling the Foundation in Deep Purple ; Conclusion

Red Families v. Blue Families is a fascinating, groundbreaking look at the ways in which the red versus blue political divide reflects an even deeper divide in family life and sexual values. Cahn and Carbone have updated the old maxim that the personal is political, and enormously enriched it, with hard data and subtle observations.

Naomi Cahn is the John Theodore Fey Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School, a Senior Fellow at the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, and a member of the Yale Cultural Cognition Project, for which she and her co-investigators have received outside funding to conduct research on public attitudes towards gay and lesbian parenting.June Carbone is the Edward A. Smith/Missouri Chair of Law, the Constitution and Society at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Professor Carbone writes extensively about the legal issues surrounding marriage, divorce, and family organization, especially within the context of the recent revolutions in biotechnology. She is the author of From Partners to Parents: The Second Revolution in Family Law and co-author of the third edition of Family Law, with Leslie Harris and the late Lee Teitelbaum.

• Introduction ; Part One: Family Maps ; 1. Moral Demography ; 2. Sexual History ; 3. The Age of Division ; 4. Personality, Politics, and Religion ; Part Two: The Legal Map ; 5. Contraception: Securing the Pathways to Blue Family Life ; 6. Abortion, Law and the Cognitive Map ; 7. The Irrationality of Adolescence: What the Adults Are Really Fighting Over ; 8. The Marrying Laws ; 9. Custody and Compromise ; Part Three: The Map to the Future ; 10. Marriage Advice in Shades of Pink ; 11. Making Ready for Baby: Painting the Nursery Sky Blue ; 12. Work and Family: Retooling the Foundation in Deep Purple ; Conclusion

Red Families v. Blue Families is a fascinating, groundbreaking look at the ways in which the red versus blue political divide reflects an even deeper divide in family life and sexual values. Cahn and Carbone have updated the old maxim that the personal is political, and enormously enriched it, with hard data and subtle observations.

Naomi Cahn is the John Theodore Fey Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School, a Senior Fellow at the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, and a member of the Yale Cultural Cognition Project, for which she and her co-investigators have received outside funding to conduct research on public attitudes towards gay and lesbian parenting.June Carbone is the Edward A. Smith/Missouri Chair of Law, the Constitution and Society at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Professor Carbone writes extensively about the legal issues surrounding marriage, divorce, and family organization, especially within the context of the recent revolutions in biotechnology. She is the author of From Partners to Parents: The Second Revolution in Family Law and co-author of the third edition of Family Law, with Leslie Harris and the late Lee Teitelbaum.

• Introduction ; Part One: Family Maps ; 1. Moral Demography ; 2. Sexual History ; 3. The Age of Division ; 4. Personality, Politics, and Religion ; Part Two: The Legal Map ; 5. Contraception: Securing the Pathways to Blue Family Life ; 6. Abortion, Law and the Cognitive Map ; 7. The Irrationality of Adolescence: What the Adults Are Really Fighting Over ; 8. The Marrying Laws ; 9. Custody and Compromise ; Part Three: The Map to the Future ; 10. Marriage Advice in Shades of Pink ; 11. Making Ready for Baby: Painting the Nursery Sky Blue ; 12. Work and Family: Retooling the Foundation in Deep Purple ; Conclusion

Red Families v. Blue Families is a fascinating, groundbreaking look at the ways in which the red versus blue political divide reflects an even deeper divide in family life and sexual values. Cahn and Carbone have updated the old maxim that the personal is political, and enormously enriched it, with hard data and subtle observations.