Real Family Values: Leading Your Family into the 21st Century with Clarity and Conviction

by Robert Lewis

This rerelease of the popular original edition continues to speak to parents in a society where "family values" no longer seem to exist. If anything, today's community standards threaten the family. Airwaves and movie theaters are drenched with obscenities; perversion is glorified; divorce is cheap and easy; "safe sex" is promoted instead of abstinence; parental authority is undermined; sex roles are confused. For children, such cultural chaos is crippling. But in Real Family Values, parents will learn how to sort through today's moral confusion, remove it from their homes, and change the world by zeroing in on the part they love most: their families.

Genres: Parenting

266 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Robert Lewis is the best-selling author of Raising a Modern-Day Knight and Rocking the Roles: Building a Win-Win Marriage. He is also executive director of the Global Reach research/resource organization, founder of the Men's Fraternity ministry, and pastor-at-large for Fellowship Bible Church in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 2001, he was named Pastor of the Year by the National Coalition of Men's Ministry. He and his wife, Sherard, have four children. Jeremy Howard holds a Ph.D. in Christian Apologetics and Worldview Studies from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Now a writer and editor, he lives with his wife and children in Nashville, Tennessee.

Reviews

[Andy Zinkle · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book is broken into three sections. The first section it felt like he was selling me on the importance of having good family values. I felt like I was being preached at, and that seemed unnecessary since I wouldn't have picked up the book if wasn't already interested. The middle section of the book was very good. It offered some real life application that I can actually use. The third section talked about his views on social issues like homosexuality, racism, and abortion. I found it a little out of place for what I was wanting out of this book.

He does offer a couple of Appendices which can help to give some direction moving forward on how to define values for your own family, and he even shared his for his own family, which I found valuable.