Contents -- Introduction by Allan C. Carlson -- 1) Introduction -- 2) Family Types and Civilization -- 3) Fluctuation of the Family Bond -- 4) From Late Roman to Trustee Familism -- 5) The Trustee Family of the Dark Ages -- 6) Rise of the Modern Domestic Family -- 7) The Rise of Modern Atomism from the Reformation to the Nineteenth Century -- 8) Philosophy and Familism in the Nineteenth Century -- 9) The Nineteenth-Century Atomistic Family -- 10) Disruption of Public Control of Familism -- 11) The Western Family and the Purposes of Family Sociology -- 12) The Dynamics of Familism -- 13) The Trustee Family System-Causal Analysis -- 14) The Domestic Family System-Causal Analysis -- 15) The Atomistic Family System-Causal Analysis -- 16) The Future of Family and Civilization -- Critical Essays -- Family and Civilization: Carle Zimmerman Confronts the West's Third Family Crisis - by Bryce Christensen -- Demography is Destiny: The Fate of the Western Family and Western Civilization - by James Kurth -- Notes -- Index.