Christopher Lasch

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

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.