Butter side up: common sense solutions to critical family issues // Review

• Published in: Western Report Vol. 11; no. 31; p. 41
• Main Author: Salway, Janet M
• Format: Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Edmonton United Western Communications 19.08.1996
• Edition: National ed.
• Subjects: Families & family life; Social value
• ISSN: 0831-8891

Heavier topics soon appear: teen suicide, child abuse, drugs, abortion, violence in courtship, and homosexual "marriage." Readers responded. A column headed "Safe Sex, What a Pile of Garbage," for example, drew an enthusiastic letter from one Alberta fan which began: "Thank goodness someone finally talks some sense." In talking sense, columnist [Janet Marie Alford Salway] inevitably talks morals as well. Nor does she hesitate to acknowledge the quiet Christian faith that underlies these precepts, in essays like "Random Acts of Kindness," "A Tribute to Mothers," and "The Sexual Side of Marriage."