Christopher Lasch Family Quotes

What did Christopher Lasch say about Family?

Christopher Lasch has written many quotes about Family. E.g.,

• The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
• The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
• It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

What are the top most famous Family quotes by Christopher Lasch?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Family by Christopher Lasch.

• The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
• The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
• It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
• 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.
• It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
• The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
• A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.
• Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.
• Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
• The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.