COMMENTARY: Healthy families necessary for societal flourishing

At the heart of every political debate are three questions: Are people flourishing? Are they safe? And do they have jobs where they're able to provide for themselves and their loved ones? Also, not at the heart of every political debate is the question: What role do families play in a flourishing society? After all, family is too often taken for granted by our political leaders and its sociological implications are too often overlooked. Perhaps this is because postmodernism demoted marriage and family formation from its primacy.

There are certainly politics behind the issues that impact families. However, marriage and the family are pre-political institutions. Hence, the goods both institutions bring to individuals and society shouldn't be partisan but should be supported across the political spectrum. The question is how to do it. 

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