Peter J. Leithart explores the problem with family values :
Traditionally, marriage and family in turn opened out to the community. As Wendell Berry says, Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at one another back toward the community. Even today, married couples say their vows to the community as much as to one another.
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