“While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble.”

— Jane Jacobs , book Dark Age Ahead

Source: Dark Age Ahead (2004), Chapter Two, Families Rigged To Fail, p. 29

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