Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.
Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.