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The Politics of Family Destruction
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"Crisis magazine, November 2002.
The Politics of Family Destruction
By Stephen Baskerville
The debate on the family is becoming increasingly politicized. President
George W. Bush proposes federal programs to promote marriage and fatherhood and
to enlist churches. Liberals respond that government does not belong in the
family but then advocate federal programs of their own.
Yet the more polarized the issues become the less willing we are to look at the
hard politics of the family crisis. Family policy is still discussed in terms
set by therapists and social scientists: the rate of divorce and unwed
motherhood, the level of poverty, the impact on children, the social costs. As
if we don't know.
As a social scientist, I do not deny the value of data (I intend to marshal some
myself). But therapeutic practitioners have established such a hold over family
policy that they have paralyzed our capacity to act. Writing on single
motherhood in Commentary magazine, the eminent political scientist James Q.
Wilson grimly concludes, "If you believe, as I do, in the power of culture,
you will realize that there is very little one can do." Like many others
(including the Bush administration), Wilson is reduced to advocating counseling
and "education."
What seems missing here is old-fashioned politics, the kind that did not
hesitate to make moral judgments and even express outrage. The politics of the
prophets, for example.
The facts are well-established among social scientists, but a kind of
ideological correctness on both left and right seems to keep us from confronting
the full implications of what we know. We are afraid to challenge the accepted
clichés about marriage breakdown, even when it becomes clear that they don't
correspond to the evidence.
We should begin, therefore, with the uncontested but seldom-mentioned facts.
First, marriages do not simply "break down" by themselves. Legally,
someone-and it is usually one-consciou"
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