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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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• ‟ 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.

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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 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.

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• ‟ The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

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• ‟ Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

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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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• ‟ 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.

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