This need to keep and accumulate as many citizens as possible who are dependent on the state also helps explain the overlap between people who are hostile to capitalism and people who are hostile to family life. The family remains the foundation of American society, the single most important institution in the life of children, far more so than any government agency dedicated to child education or welfare. But for decades now, the American family has been suffering. Absent fathers, children born out of wedlock, and the destructive effects of drug and alcohol abuse have eroded the central role
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