The vicious attack on family.

Vladimir Lenin put it this way: “Destroy the family, destroy the nation.”

Historian Arnold Toynbee correctly observed, “Nations rise and fall with the health of its families.”

 “‎The subversion of marriage and the family has extended to law and morality, to authority and to custom. The very habits of human life–the customs and traditions on which civilization is grounded–are now being reversed, marginalized, and discarded in an effort to eliminate all norms by normalizing the abnormal. For those whose agenda is to undermine Judeo-Christian morality and to disconnect Western civilization from biblical norms, there is no better strategy than to subvert marriage, family, and sexuality, and unleash on society an age and culture of polymorphous perversity.”

Quote Albert Mohler

‘Old settled societies appear like a frozen river in my part of New Hampshire: On the surface, all is still. Underneath, the icy water is fast-moving. That’s where all the business that really engages Santorum is — and he’s not wrong on most of it. As Congressman Mike Pence said a year or two back, “To those who say we should simply focus on fiscal issues, I say you would not be able to print enough money in a thousand years to pay for the government you would need if the traditional family collapses.” (Mark Steyn article)’

This one quote shows that Mark Steyn has got it, that  if you do not recognise your place in the universe, that it is not a giant playground for us to satisfy all our selfish urges, but an opportunity to pass on a common culture through sacrifice and responsibility to the next generation through family, then we are tightening the noose for our own necks.

Few people realise the dark spirit that is at work long term to utterly destroy what many of us have known as normality. What was taken for granted in the past with that settled network of mums and dads, aunts, uncles and grandparents has given way to the construction of a counterfeit idea of family that is and will reap devastating consequences for the health of the nation.

You build family, you build the nation, you destroy family you destroy the nation. For many years there has been a ruthless, unrelenting attack on the family, and by that I mean mum, dad and the children, as well as marriage. We are now reaping the harvest of the folly that we have sown over many years.

Children are the most precious asset we have, nothing, not even all the gold and mineral wealth you could ever want matches the value of children to a nation. That is why they need the greatest time and investment above any other activity. If you have children it is a great responsibility to pass on a common culture and teach them the way to succeed in life.

The traditional family is the best way to nurture youngsters and prepare them for the rigours of life; yes many times it is it is far from perfect, and yes many times it fails, but this is no argument for destroying it. It is still by far the best construct for maintaining civilisation. It is also a bulwark against an over-mighty state; strong families are self reliant and support one another, they are independently minded and train their offspring to be so, not to be reliant on the state or entitlements. They foster strong responsible adults who can work their own passage; this is why the spirit behind cultural Marxism wants to destroy the family, for it knows that the state will take its place.

There is a truly sinister operation at work to transfer ownership and responsibility for children from their rightful guardians to the state. The United Nations as well as the E.U.  are at the heart of this vicious attack on the sanctity of family life. The New Labour government was a willing participant in this process; every time they insisted on a new database, a new set of competences for children to meet, further nursery provision for very young children and extending the reach of CRB checks they are cooperating with the spirit of division, to divide parents from their offspring and to create mistrust in society. Although the government try to tell you otherwise, that they are trying to protect children or ensure their safety, the same spirit of coercion is at work to control private behaviour.

Perhaps the most important time for a child is its first few years, when I would argue that the best place for him/her to be is with the mum and dad, usually the mum, who has the most important job in the world, the nurturing of the next generation. The place for a young child is to be with their own family to soak up all the emotional and physical affirmation that a mother can give a child, not to be shunted off to a nursery or kindergarten while the parents go off to work. This is where current public policy is so off centre in concentrating on economic output at the expense of the long term emotional health of the population.

Something has gone seriously wrong when parents are restricted in their legitimate responsibility. It is no business of the state at all to be involved in child discipline, yet the government has the gross impertinence, I could use much stronger language, to constrain parental authority. Take corporal punishment for example; foolishness is found in the heart of a child, and sometimes physical correction is appropriate as one of the weapons in a parent’s armoury. Any parent should have absolute discretion in deciding how they administer discipline; the only time the state should intervene is if there is a criminal offence i.e. physical cruelty to a child, which is a world away from a measured physical correction given by most parents.

Take another area, home schooling. It is no business of the state to decide on how a child should be educated, or what they should be taught, unless what they are being taught is of direct danger to the society they live in; in case any of us have forgotten, teachers are ‘in loco parentis’, which means ‘in the place of a parent’ or ‘instead of a parent,’ not in place of the state. The state’s job is to make sure that a child has the opportunity to be educated, its reach should stop at that point. This is why New Labour should have been robustly opposed; they should have been roasted on the metaphorical barbecue for trying to bring in these measures by a strong opposition, but alas, the whole political class is mired in a treacle of political correctness.

Yet another area is with regard to sexual ethics; it is now accepted that the authorities have the right to go over the heads of the parents in providing contraceptives and also in recommending an abortion for a child. This is a dangerous usurpation of parental rights, if you want to attribute such rights. Again, a child is the responsibility of the parents, not the State.

Childrens’ rights is another plank of this ruthless campaign to undermine parental authority, being driven on the international stage by the UN. Again it is a bullying spirit that will stop at nothing to achieve its aims. The long game in this is that children will have the right to disassociate themselves or gain a ‘divorce’ from their parents at a very young age, such will be the power of ‘rights.’ Children will be able to claim that parental authority is a misuse of a privileged position to teach a child a way that it does not want to go. A parent that wants to rear its child a certain way could get in trouble with the law, or if it wants to train its child in a particular religious belief it could be taken to court for indoctrinating the child. This is illegitimate usurpation of parental authority.

Make no mistake that the spirit behind this wants to turn children against their parents and to totally control what they believe and what is deemed acceptable.

Another tactic being used is to turn upside down and undermine the key relationship for the survival of a healthy society, the marriage relationship between a man and a woman as the best environment to nurture the future of our society, our children. This has been driven not only by UK government but by the EU elite. Thus the bringing in of gay marriage is just another plank in the construction of a battering ram against the traditional family.