The attempt to redefine the family as a purely vol... -Christopher Lasch

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

Christopher Lasch , Historian
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American historian and social critic, known for his influential works like "The Culture of Narcissism" and "The True and Only Heaven."

Christopher Lasch Quotes to Explore

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arg...
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage....
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values ...
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button....
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics....
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of fami...
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all ...
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types....
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment....
Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize....

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There are so many people out there struggling with racism, or their sexuality or where they're brought up or how wealthy their family was ans these is...
My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American....
Be yourself. And if you're not accepted by your family, there will be people who will accept you....
One side of my family cooked this way, talked this way, celebrate this way, traditions is this way, and then one of the sides is different, and as a k...
Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family....
I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity....
Migrants all over the world are pushed and pulled across borders by hunger, terror and climate change. It happened to my own family....
When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent t...
Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I mis...
I'm from a family of six men, so I'm bound to be physical....