[In a 1996 panel discussion on "Reframing Family Values" at the Woodrow Wilson Center]
When my turn came, I attempted a few chart-free comments: To bolster the family, we certainly have to come to terms...with '60s values, particularly the core value that self-fulfillment is a trump card over all obligations and expectations. By breaking the taboos against unwed motherhood and casual divorce, we have created the world's most dangerous environment for children...
...Much umbrage was taken at my comments. In closing the panel, the co-moderator, a well-known economist, said that a woman's right to have a baby without having the father around is what feminism is all about. In shaking her hand afterward, I remarked, perhaps a bit ungraciously, that intentionally planning to have a fatherless family was like setting out intentionally to build a Yugo.
--John Leo in U.S. News and World Report, 5 February 1996
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