‘Family Values’ and Republicans
Ruth Rosen is correct that many Americans long for a return to traditional family life (“ ‘Family Values’ Is a GOP Code for Meanness,” Column Left, April 21). As she also points out, they have plenty of cause: a 50% divorce rate, 3.5 million latchkey children, and 70,000 abandoned elderly per year. Our society has lost its center.
But Rosen contemns traditional family life as a “cartoon image.” And she recommends--what? More sex education and more abortion. More of the same of what got us where we are.
I don’t know what Rosen and the Democrats think they’re defending, but it sure ain’t the family.
DANIEL PALM
Claremont Institute
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