The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time. -Christopher Lasch Family
The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family. -Christopher Lasch Family
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. -Christopher Lasch Family
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. -Christopher Lasch Smile
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. -Christopher Lasch Strength
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage. -Christopher Lasch Marriage
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. -Christopher Lasch Family
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. -Christopher Lasch Wisdom
