[reinhold] Niebuhr Endorsed G.k.chesterton’s Observation

The Question Of The Family Now Divides Our Society So Deeply That The Opposing Sides Cannot Even Agree On A Definition Of The Institution They Are Arguing About.

Parents Accept Their Obsolescence With The Best Grace They Can Muster. . . They Do All They Can To Make It Easy For The Younger Generation To Surpass The Older, While Secretly Dreading The Rejection That Follows.

Because It Equates Tradition With Prejudice, The Left Finds Itself Increasingly Unable To Converse With Ordinary People In Their Common Language.

We Do Not Need To Minimize The Poverty Of The Ghetto Or The Suffering Inflicted By Whites On Blacks In Order To See That The Increasingly Dangerous And Unpredictable Conditions Of Middle-class Life Have Given Rise To Similar Strategies For Survival. Indeed The Attraction Of Black Culture For Disaffected Whites Suggests That Black Culture Now Speaks To A General Condition.

The Left Dismisses Talk About The Collapse Of Family Life And Talks Instead About The Emergence Of The Growing New Diversity Of Family Types.