The Natural Family ...will never be obsolete

— How traditional homes forge healthy humans and fend off modern maladies

De: Karl Zinsmeister

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

The family has been described as “the factory that manufactures mankind.”

Alas, many products of family life emerge damaged today. Children especially, but also millions of adults, are being hurt by the frail, low-devotion, unstable homelife that arrived starting in the 1960s with record levels of divorce, birth-out-of-wedlock, father flight, careerism, and neglect. Weakened family ties are a problem for all income levels, all races, all communities. And family breakdown is now at the root of our most worrisome social problems—drug abuse and crime, poverty, mass loneliness and depression, weak schooling.

This book takes fascinating dives into biology, history, psychology, and more to demonstrate in fresh ways that the natural family—children being raised by a mother and a father committed to each other and to their offspring—though imperfect, will never be surpassed as a source of human success and happiness.

Even the most earnest attempts to create alternatives to the traditional family—step families, scientific day care, the nanny nursery, the kibbutz—have proven shockingly inadequate. Discover why, and have your eyes opened on many other aspects of family life, in the pages of this original work.