Family Values
Progress is natural. Yet somehow modern nations still retain kings; middle- America still demands science books without Darwin, and southern white children still eye black children suspiciously. These beliefs, formed under primitive technological and political circumstances, continue to this day because they are taught to children within the social framework that is least affected by the progressive tendencies of mass politics, increasingly diversified culture, and technological expansion. Conservatives demand that children are raised privately, because they fear the democratic implications of publicly raised children. The special cultural and apolitical qualities of a family-based development of children effectively preserve the anachronistic social and political beliefs that a public or state education would suffocate. Conservative’s most important grasp of the future is not the Republican majority in the house, but their control of the home. Although school would seem to be the most important institution in developing a child’s thinking, it is the home where a child first learns how to think. In her work on childhood development, The Invisible Heart, Nancy Folbre writes that, “The child’s personality evolves as a compo
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Approximate Word count = 1649
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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