Tim Barrus in the New York Times: American Family
What both liberalism and conservatism prop up is mythology. In reality, the American family is a vile, repulsive, and depraved institution whose significance is about power, and has nothing to do with bonding.
I do not mean to be uncivil. This is simply what I think, what I have seen, and what I know from experience. Liberals would not touch eliminating it. The American family is sacred. Contending that the American family is evil is dangerous.
In this context, the American family has all the liabilities as religion. Conservatism protects the idea of the American family versus what. Versus genetic engineering where chromosomes are calculated and birth parents will in the near future be ephemeral.
We will be able to design our own children, and we won’t have to endure birth. In fact, we can do some of this now. It isn’t liberals conservatives fear. It’s science.
The American family produces children who become depressive, suicidal, diseased, divorced, emotionally dissociative, and the coincidental paradigm called the “foster” family is another failed cultural replacement. You cannot replace parents with social workers who have over a hundred case files.
The American family has collapsed. It is an insolvency that both liberals and conservatives reinforce with impunity. One in four boys has been sexually abused. The numbers for females is slightly higher. The American family has not saved them, but has exploited them. Designations such as right and left are inapplicable.