At no point in our culture has the nuclear family been under attack to the extent it is today. Marriage has been redefined by the US Supreme Court to include same-sex couples. Cohabitation has become an accepted practice. Divorce continues to plague our families. Yet the very foundation of our future existence as a society depends on the recovery of a biblical ethic for the family. In Hard Hat Area: Building Biblical Families, Jim Richards approaches family models, from singleness to the nuclear family, from a biblical perspective and provides guidance to the church.