Take Back Your Family
From the Tyrants of Burnout, Busyness, Individualism, and the Nuclear Ideal

Thank you to Nelson Books and NetGalley for allowing me to review this book. My thoughts are my own. I am not a theologian by any means, but I was brought up in a Christian family and have attended church all my life. I do a lot of reading of various subjects and feel I have a grounded viewpoint of l......more

Highly recommend this for anyone who longs for a better way for the modern family. Bethke explains how we got to where we are in America, how unusual the nuclear family is in the course of history, and what we can do to recapture the spirit of the strong family cultures of the past. Really helped me......more

I recently heard author, Jefferson Bethke, give an interview on a Focus on the Family podcast and found his ideas intriguing. He spoke of the importance and benefits of the multigenerational family and the negative impact in the West that the nuclear family has had. I researched the author a little......more

Great book challenging the modern understanding of family. This book explores the roots of our current western perspective of family and where we got off track. It explores the Biblical view of family as a multi-generational team on mission and leads us to rediscover this mindset for our own familie......more