The Patriot Post® · We Must Embrace the Traditional Family if We Want Liberty

Terence Jeffrey: “Back in 1940, only 3.8 percent of American babies were born to unmarried mothers. By 1960, it was still only 5.3 percent. The curve that tracks the increasing percentage of babies born to unmarried mothers starts to bend upward in the mid-1960s. By 1965, it was 7.7 percent. By 1969, it was 10 percent. By 1975, it was 14.3 percent. It broke 20 percent in 1983; 30 percent in 1992; and 40 percent in 2008. That year it was 40.6 percent. In 2009, it was 41.0 percent. In 2010, it was 40.8 percent. In 2011, it was 40.7 percent. In 2012, it was 40.7 percent. And in 2013, it was 40.6 percent. It is a statistical fact that the institution of the family has been collapsing in America over the past 45 years. … As the traditional family has receded from its historical role as the foundation of our society, what has taken its place? Government. … It is also true that there are people in government who rather than let us raise our own children would prefer to raise them for us – to fit their own models of virtue and excellence. Yet if America continues to turn away from the traditional family, we will never turn back to limited government and the liberty that goes with it.”