The attacks on the nuclear family are half-right
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“The nuclear family was a mistake,” declared David Brooks back in March.
“We are committed to disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure," declared a New York City teachers union group affiliated with Black Lives Matter.
“Parent is an oppressive class,” declared Noah Berlatsky, an opinion writer published at places such as NBC and CNN.
These arguments can sound like radical Year Zero, hyperrationalist insanity. It could sound like someone who read too much Kant too poorly and decided it was unethical to love his own children more than anyone else. Or it sounds like some French Revolution- or Leninist-inspired attempt to overthrow all pre-existing social order and start afresh and enlightened.