Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn't Work
Hardcover - 300 pages
In too many families, the parents' hand has given way to the Invisible Hand in the raising of children. In this new book, a distinguished economist warns that by misapplying libertarian economic and political principles to the family, we undermine the only institution that produces the honest, self-governing citizens upon which a free society depends.
Dr. Morse recalls an important fact that most political thinkers overlook: we come into the world not as rational adults but as babies. And babies are self-centered and impulsive-cute, but not noble, savages. The family's job is to care for these helpless creatures while teaching them trust and self-control. She then shows why neither private day-care, government, nor a single parent can do this job as well as a committed mother and father. She concludes by explaining why basing family life on the political and economic philosophy of individual autonomy rather than the personal philosophy of love is a prescription for individual unhappiness and social chaos.
Author Jennifer Roback Morse
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