All Posts Tagged With: "traditional family"
The War Between the State and the Family: How Government Divides and Impoverishes
Sympathy and compassion help make humans caring, moral beings. Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, understood that, as illustrated by his emphasis on sympathy in The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Often, however, sympathy and compassion are transformed from tools of moral judgment and action into weapons of blind ideology, irrational emotionalism, and cynical politics. [...]
22Jan2009 | Raymond J. Keating | 3 comments | ContinuedCapitalism and the Family
It is hard to think of a human social institution that has undergone more change in less time than has the family in the last several decades. Although the magnitude and rapidity of those changes are exaggerated by the unusual stability in the family from just after World War II until the mid-1960s, the 40 [...]
1Jul2007 | Steven Horwitz | 8 comments | ContinuedA “Family” Crisis at the United Nations
In 1979 the General Assembly of the United Nations passed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which the United States has yet to ratify. Also in 1979 “the International Year of the Child” the U.N. began discussion of a draft agreement on the rights of children, which resulted [...]
1Oct2001 | Wendy McElroy | 0 comments | Continued-
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