Austin Ruse on Cultivating a 500-Year Vision for Your Family
We are often told that the family is the basic unit of society. But these days, the family is in trouble as an institution. Fewer people are getting married. Divorce rates are high. We face a birth dearth that is impacting our demography. We even see advocacy for estrangement between children and parents, brothers and sisters over political differences. It is not an overstatement to say we face a domestic crisis.
Into this societal malaise comes Austin Ruse with a new book — Not Just for Kings: Cultivating a 500-Year Vision for Your Family — that not only advocates for family formation and sustainability but also offers suggestions to ensure that your family’s legacy continues for many generations.
Austin Ruse is an activist, commentator, and author. He spent many years in the New York magazine world, working at senior levels for Fortune, Forbes, the Atlantic Monthly, and Rolling Stone. After a religious conversion to Catholicism, Ruse has served as president of Center for Family and Human Rights, which lobbies for pro-family policies at the United Nations and internationally. He is the author of four previous books, including Littlest Suffering Souls.
He is a founding columnist of The Catholic Thing, and a bi-weekly columnist with Crisis Magazine. Ruse holds undergraduate degrees in Journalism and Political Science from the University of Missouri. He is a Knight in the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
Austin and his wife Catherine have two daughters.