The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. Just as the authoritarian family is the authoritarian state in microcosm, the democratic family is the best training ground for life in a democracy.
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Permalink to quote #4 If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?
Permalink to quote #3 America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
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