Dads Cannot Be Replaced With Government

COMMENTARY Marriage and Family

Dads Cannot Be Replaced With Government

Jul 21, 2022 1 min read
COMMENTARY BY
Kevin D. Roberts, PhD

President

Heritage Trustee since 2023
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If politics is upstream from culture, Americans need a serious reality check. Ruling elites have used the deterioration of civil society to consolidate their power in a doomed effort to push an unpopular agenda. That has to change.

Three generations of elites—from Washington to Hollywood—have promised young Americans that severing the natural connections between sex, marriage, commitment, kids, and parenthood would be “liberating.” It has been anything but.

The fact is, there is a policy and a civic component to revitalizing our institutions, communities, and human connections. Delano and Kevin discuss the implications—and viable solutions—of a failing education system, the attack on the nuclear family, and a society where dads are replaced with government.


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