Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.