WAR AGAINST THE FAMILY

<p><strong>THE GROUNDBREAKING BESTSELLER is back in print!</strong></p><p><strong>Widely recognized as the most powerful and complete critique of the war against the family presently taking place in Western democracies.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Inspired by his own passionate experience as a son husband and father Gairdner offers in this book a forum for a long-overdue debate about the future of the family in Western civilization.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Gairdner traces the war against the family to an egalitarian ideology that begins with Plato and survives today as a utopian liberalism that has become a caricature of itself everywhere promoting the equality and rights of individuals but ignoring their duties and obligations. Driven by its devotion to egalitarianism and the promise of what can only be a morally and socially irresponsible form of freedom the modern state effectively weakens all of society of which the traditional the family unit is the most important element.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>So constituted the modern democratic state is driven to target the family unit as a bastion of privacy privilege and moral authority at odds with the state's own secular and egalitarian motives. Hence the war against the family.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>All those who are concerned about the direction of modern life and the country they are leaving for future generations are sure to benefit from this </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>cri de coeur</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> written by a man of deep experience and searing insight.</span></p>