My favourite February read was Christopher Lasch’s brilliant analysis of the family, Haven in a Heartless World. Lasch unpicks the changing nature of the threats to this foundational social institution that have, for over a century, come from social scientists, psychologists and experts in marriage and child rearing. With the authority of parents called into question, the role the family plays in society is undermined and families are weakened. Lasch’s powerful argument is that removing the moral responsibility for socialising children from families and placing it within broader society is not personally or politically liberating but socially contstricting. Here are a couple of quotations that really resonated with me:
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What I read in February
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My favourite February read was Christopher Lasch’s brilliant analysis of the family, Haven in a Heartless World. Lasch unpicks the changing nature of the threats to this foundational social institution that have, for over a century, come from social scientists, psychologists and experts in marriage and child rearing. With the authority of parents called into question, the role the family plays in society is undermined and families are weakened. Lasch’s powerful argument is that removing the moral responsibility for socialising children from families and placing it within broader society is not personally or politically liberating but socially contstricting. Here are a couple of quotations that really resonated with me: