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.

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

The family is a haven in a heartless world.

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

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.