Liberal hostility to the traditional family helped to undermine centuries of accumulated wisdom and experience about what was best for children and adults. Far from benefiting only men, marriage confers enormous advantages on women and children as well - a… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
If liberals had been in charge of the Arizona memorial, it would probably have featured an exhaustive exhibit about the internment of Japanese Americans… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
To judge by what my children are learning in school, you'd think American history was 75 percent slavery and 25 percent everything else (and… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
Any stimulus package amounts to taking money from the pockets of some Americans and placing it in the pockets of others who have better… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
Liberal child welfare experts decided that child abuse was not evidence of a moral or character flaw in the abusing parent. Instead, like poverty,… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
The proposed liberal solution was always negotiation. Just as they believed in nuclear arms negotiations for their own sake, they believe in a "peace… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
[T]he sprawl of government into every conceivable realm of life has caused the withering of traditional institutions. Fathers become unnecessary if the government provides Aid to Families with Dependent Children. Church charities lose their mission when the government provides food, shelter and income to the poor. And the non-poor no longer feel pressed to provide aid to those in need,… — Mona Charen Copy Share
Just as the baby boom generation seemed to believe it was the first to discover sex, many of its members also seemed to think… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
The child welfare system - devised and run by liberal social workers, psychologists, and judges. . .Treats incompetent or abusive parents as its clients,… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor. — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
There was a time when 'fear of God' meant piety, or at least conscience. Today, it more accurately describes the worldview of secular liberals… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes. — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
Because adoption meets the needs of children so successfully, and because there have long been waiting lists of couples hoping to adopt babies and children, it would seem that the solution for abused or neglected kids was obvious. But not to the do-gooders. To remove a child from an abusive parent, sever the parent's parental rights, and permit the child… — Mona Charen Copy Share
