"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."
-Christopher Lasch
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"The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.“
-Christopher Lasch
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"The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family."
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"The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life."
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"The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types."
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"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."
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"Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage."
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