Keep it always in mind. The world hates the family. The state is the family’s enemy. The state grows by the family’s failure, and the state has an interest in persuading people that the family can do nothing on its own. It hates fatherhood, and makes little pretense otherwise. It hates motherhood, though it makes a show of championing the unwed mother as well as the mother who, as the ugly phrase puts it, “has it all,” though a moment’s reflection should suffice to show that no one can give his or her all to a career and a family and the local community.
Anthony Esolen, Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture, pg.125
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