As part of their ongoing assault on monogamous marriage, the Democratic Party and their media allies constantly try to undercut the primacy of the nuclear family as the fundamental building block of American society.
Take New York magazine’s family life columnist Kathryn Jezer-Morton, who recently accused conservatives of “raging nostalgia for a fake past.” “They’re not nostalgic for the ’50s as it actually was,” Jezer-Morton writes, “but the ’50s as it exists in the imaginations of many white Americans: as the peak of ‘normal’ white American culture. This is where our ideas about what a ‘typical American family’ looks like tend to originate.”
Jezer-Morton goes on to quote Dr. Stephanie Coontz, who argues in her book The Way We Never Were that the nuclear family of the 1950s was a historical “aberration” and is therefore an unfit model for modern…
