The nuclear family has been eviscerated—by technology, contraception, penicillin, travel, and so on. Its decay has been ascribed to the champions of its demise: humanism, globalism, and atheism-as-reason. But these are only the beneficiaries of its decay. Membership in our various correct-thinking groups is actually an unconscious attempt to reconstitute the family—that group which might offer protection. Just like life in the urban gangs.
