Socialists and the Family

The family is inherently an obstacle to schemes for central control of social processes.  Therefore, the anointed necessarily find themselves repeatedly on a collision course with the family.  It is not a matter of any subjective animus on their part against families.  The anointed may in fact be willing to shower government largess upon families, as they do on other social entities.  But the preservation of the family as an autonomous decision-making unit is incompatible with the third-party decision making that is at the heart of the vision of the anointed.

Thomas Sowell, "The Vision of the Anointed," p.172