"It's as if Family Strictures Undermine Family Structures"

"The paradox is this: Cultural conservatives revel in condemning the loose moral values and louche lifestyles of 'San Francisco liberals.' But if you want to find two-parent families with stable marriages and coddled kids, your best bet is to bypass Sarah Palin country and go to Nancy Pelosi territory: the liberal, bicoastal, predominantly Democratic places that cultural conservatives love to hate."

In National Journal, Jonathan Rauch reviews Naomi Cahn and June Carbone's Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture.

Ross Douthat comments in The New York Times.