Leslie Anne Carbone

Leslie Anne Carbone is a domestic policy analyst at the Family Research Council, a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization that exists to reaffirm and promote the traditional family unit and the Judeo-Christian value system upon which it is built. She maintains in the subsequent viewpoint that feminism has weakened the institution of the family by insisting that both women and men abandon their traditional gender roles. Carbone argues that the elimination of these roles has led to the decline of marriage and an increase in divorce and single parenthood—developments that have severe consequences for children and for society as a whole.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. According to Carbone, what are the different roles fulfilled by husbands and wives?
2. How have feminists challenged the permanence of marriage, in the author...