The Civilizing Power of Marriage and Family Elizabeth Wright

For reasons that have been endlessly chronicled and analyzed, tens of thousands of black men have removed themselves from playing productive roles as fathers and husbands. These men are in prisons across the country, roam the streets of cities and towns, and are attached to activities that undermine the cohesion of every community they pass through. It is this missing masculine drive and energy that is at the heart of why the poor black community continues in its downward spiral, seemingly to oblivion. The loss of productive masculine input is an incalculable one. The condition of the black masses will never be altered until men are restored to their right and proper place within the bonds of family life.

For those who hold firmly to the soundness of the previous statements, George Gilder's "Visible Man" has long been a special book. In it, Gilder first introduced a basic theme that he developed in later works, that is, when bureaucratic institutions undermine or replace the economic function of men, men are unlikely to play positive roles in the ongoing sustenance of community life. Society suffers, and may not long survive, when men are no longer under the influence of what Gilder calls, "the civilizing power of marriage and family."

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