Book burning, Latin prayers – and a lot of kids: inside the American ‘trad family’ movement

 

 

 

 

 

 

 "As they did, she and Mike began to wonder whether many of the secular liberal assumptions they had long held were true. Did technological progress really make people happier? Had greater gender equality actually worked out for women and families? They discovered other people with the same doubts – and a similar yearning for an America that no longer exists, and perhaps in some regards never did.

They are part of a small movement of Americans who believe that the modern world is broken – and that the solution lies not in economic equality or social progressivism, but in an older, stricter family order. For families like these, a house is not just a home, but a castle against a decadent and dysfunctional world. They believe that they have figured out something about modern life that the rest of us have not, or are in denial about."

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