Family is the Foundation
The family is not a prison but a school of virtue, a preparation for citizenship, and a sanctuary where love tempers human weakness.
Nebojša Lazić is a writer and a leading young conservative voice based in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily align with those of The American Postliberal.
At the heart of every conservative idea lies the traditional family. That is precisely why the family has been under siege for years. Through the relentless promotion of isolation and radical individualism, the mainstream media has attacked the very pillars of society, the sacred institution of mother and father.
We have been told that a woman is only free if she rejects her family, that husband and children are shackles holding her back from happiness, that fatherhood is obsolete. These are not truths; they are ideological illusions designed to dismantle the family and erode our moral order.
As the family disintegrates, so too does the cultural fabric that sustains a free people. What emerges in its place is a form of soft enslavement, where egoism becomes the only virtue, and consumerism the new temple of our age. The so-called “freedoms” of modern society often mask the worst kind of bondage: submission to appetites, to screens, to markets, to the false gods of a secular age.
Where once Americans dreamed of the family dinner table, media now glorify the atomized individual, disconnected from kin, hostile to tradition, and adrift in a sea of empty slogans.
To preserve the traditional family is to preserve civilization itself. The family is not a prison but a school of virtue, a preparation for citizenship, and a sanctuary where love tempers human weakness.
Yet, in today’s culture, love has been traded for narcissism. We love others only to the extent they resemble ourselves; we no longer cherish differences as blessings but treat them as threats. A society that cannot uphold marriage and family is a society that cannot endure.
The crisis of the family is inseparable from the moral crisis of our time. When man becomes the center of his own universe, he has no room left for God, for neighbor, or nation. Marriage fails, not because it is obsolete, but because we are teaching people to worship the self.
Narcissism rejects responsibility; it cannot sustain a covenant. And without covenant, families crumble. From this decay flows violence, alienation, and despair. The modern world promises progress, yet in chasing technology we have regressed in soul.
Empathy is mocked as weakness; strength is measured in slogans rather than in sacrifice. A godless society inevitably manufactures its own idols turning food, sex, politics, and technology into objects of devotion. Man cannot live on idols; he becomes their slave.
The answer is not complicated. We must return to the enduring truths of faith, family, and virtue. The Church is the great community of believers; the family is the “little church,” the first community of love and sacrifice. To defend the family is to defend human dignity itself. Every society that has abandoned this truth has paid the price in broken homes and broken souls.
Our survival as a people depends on whether we preserve the family. Just as the family once nurtured us, so now we must raise our voices to protect it. Political correctness cannot excuse cowardice. Those who fight for the family have not lost.
With hope and resolve, we look to future generations who will inherit a world where the soul, the family, and moral values still matter. In that struggle, our labor is not in vain.
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