?No Pasar?n!: The breakdown of the family drives government ...

Richard A. Viguerie's post came out at Yuletide, but it is timeless, and as the new year begins, along with the attendant resolutions, it bears reprinting:

? if Christmas is a celebration of the family, today, as First Lady of the conservative movement Phyllis Schlafly reminded us in her column, the American family is in serious trouble.

Last year, 41 percent of all babies born in the U.S. (including 53 percent of babies born to women under 30) were born outside of marriage. ?It is obvious,? said Schlafly, ?that when the mother of these children has no husband to support her and her babies, she calls on Big Brother Government.?

This is an important point to keep in mind as we take a holiday break from the battle over the fiscal cliff, taxes and spending.

America?s urban liberal elite, who are the arbiters of popular culture, constantly promote the idea that the family is irrelevant, motherhood is demeaning and stay-at-home mothers are a burden on the state.

After forty-five years of the sexual revolution, urban liberal feminists, the media and an amoral government-run education system have convinced less educated Americans that marriage and the ?role of father or husband or wife? are not only unnecessary to emotional fulfillment and economic advancement, getting married will get in the way of the activities celebrated in the popular media, such as partying and casual sex.

Establishment Republicans don?t want to talk about marriage and the family. It all sounds so judgmental around the bar at the country club.

However, as Phyllis Schlafly noted, the breakdown of the family drives government spending because you and I then pay the bills for welfare, after school programs, Head Start and a host of other expensive and largely unsuccessful federal efforts to replace the nuclear family.

This is very much what Rick Santorum was saying out on the campaign trail during the Republican primary elections, but it is a truth that disappeared from the political conversation as soon as Santorum suspended his campaign.

This Christmas, please join me in celebrating the family and, in the midst of our battle over federal spending, let?s re-dedicate ourselves to helping to solve our government?s fiscal crisis by solving our nation?s family crisis.

In this context, it is never a bad idea to bring up the writings of Stephen Baskerville?

Source: http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-breakdown-of-family-drives.html

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