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No, Hillary, it doesn't take a village
Senator Rick Santorum's scorching conservative response to Senator Clinton
It Takes a Family
by Rick Santorum
If public policy is to be effective and just, it must be based on sound values -- including the centrality of the family to all social and political life. In It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good, Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA), the courageous and articulate pro-life champion explains why. He shows that an appreciation for the genuine civic bonds that unite a community lies at the heart of genuine conservatism -- and that to attack those bonds (as liberal policymakers do relentlessly) is to attack the health and future of society itself.
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Santorum here demolishes the liberal dogma that goes unquestioned by the mainstream media. He proves that a truly conservative approach to political, social, and economic problems actually offers the most promise for those on the margins of American society: the poor, the vulnerable, and minorities. Santorum argues persuasively that a conservative statesman must be animated by a deep sense that he is a steward of the American cultural inheritance -- not someone entrusted with the power or authority to destroy that inheritance. He explores in detail how traditional social and cultural connections are the foundations of the common good.
Above all, Santorum in this book presents innovative policy proposals for the restoration to health of American society at all levels. In contrast to his Senatorial colleague Hillary Clinton, he emphasizes the central role of the family in this renewal, sharply opposing her metaphorical village (which really stands for control of the federal government over minute aspects of our lives).
Rick Santorum reveals:
- The core reason why liberals so detest the traditional family
- Why liberal economic policies have not only been devastating to the poor and the middle class economically, but have actually undermined the basic structures of our society
- How our social, governmental, and educational institutions, along with the popular culture, seemed to work together to aid parents in raising their children -- and how now these same institutions are working against parents
- It's an open-and shut case: why the best place for kids to grow up is with a happily-married mom and dad -- and why the more such families there are in a community, the better life is there for everyone
- Proof: broken homes increase the delinquency rate in a community by 10 to 15 percent the proportion of single-parent households in a community predicts the rate of violent crime and burglary much better than a community's level of poverty
- Why society has -- or should have -- such a strong interest in strengthening the institution of marriage
- Low fertility rates in the Western world: their far-reaching and ultimately disastrous consequences
- The ominous implications of the Supreme Court's 1992 misguided pro-abortion decision Planned Parenthood v. Casey (they go far beyond the abortion question itself)
- How the nationwide push for same-sex marriage could actually have good consequences for American society
- What is wrong with the Left's view of human nature and morality -- a view that is daily communicated to our children through the mass media
- Roe v. Wade: it can be overturned (and why it must be, if our nation is to regain its moral health)
- Why, if we are to succeed as a society, we all must adopt our founders' moral vision based on the Golden Rule and selfless acts on behalf of the common good
- How even popular culture can be a force for good if it is strategically engaged -- and what conservatives must do to reclaim it now
- Sex on television: how the harsh reality of sexually transmitted diseases never shows up on the screen -- while their rates rise to epidemic proportions by those influenced by onscreen smut
- How advertisers can and should use their clout to make sure that TV shows aired during the family hour are really for families and that shows targeting kids are really for kids
- The government: yes, it does have a role in cleaning up our culture -- but why that role is not that of a censor
- Schools: the significance of the fact that they are not mentioned even once in the Constitution
- Why teaching children good manners is an indispensable centerpiece of true family-centered education
- Homeschooling: why the common criticism that children who are schooled at home aren't "socialized" rings hollow
- Why the postmodern drivel that is being foisted on our young people in America's universities has potentially disastrous consequences for our society
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