Help the family: privatize and depoliticize

As the welfare state has expanded, the family has declined and serious social problems have proliferated. The consequences can clearly be seen in the demographics of young people reared in fatherless homes: 85 percent of imprisoned youth, 72 percent of high school dropouts, 80 percent of rapists and 63 percent of teenagers who commit suicide. So, what should be done now?

David Theroux, founder of the Independent Institute and the president of the C.S. Lewis Society of California, says we must privatize and depoliticize.