Philip Blond calls the family “a deeply radical and indeed feminist institution” because it “binds men to women and offers a cultural account of how they should behave towards one another.”
On the other hand, progressive demolition of the family has left unmarried women triple losers : “they have to work externally, labour domestically, and look after the children by themselves.”
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