"The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life."

Family, Life, Wage

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"The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life."

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"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

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"I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness."

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"Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her."

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"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."

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"The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction."

Trust

"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 family life."

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"The conservative revival cannot be dismissed."

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"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."

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"It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family."

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"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order."

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"The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system."

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"A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction."

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"Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger."

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