Delete comment from: Captain Capitalism
A fine rant, Cap.
A caveat though, the nuclear family is not the be all end all. Its the minimum needed to sustain civilization.
And the States hatred of the family is nothing new, the manorial state of the middle ages tried to break up the stronger clan structures so the elite could control unruly populations.
The Romans did these among the lower classes as well.
More modern societies (industrial age here) attacked the extended family in subtle ways (mainly by promoting the nuclear family above all else) because extend families creates less economic activity for the State and are harder to control.
Ideally if a smaller State is the end game than we need to encourage bigger families and more kinship within a framework of cooperation so as to avoid the situation in the Middle East
How we do this against probably a millennium of effort is of course the challenge.
Jan 24, 2015, 9:13:12 PM
Posted to Why the Left Hates Nuclear Families