In a blog post aptly entitled “I’m Sorry, But Your Utopia is
Just a Little Creepy”, David Thompson assembles a series of rather ominous
quotes and links on the modern family.
First, from Anthony Daniels (or ‘Theodore Dalrymple’ if you
prefer), doctor and psychiatrist, on observations arising out of his practice
in England:
“In the course of my duties, I would often go to patients’ homes. Everyone lived in households with a shifting cast of members, rather than in families. If there was an adult male resident, he was generally a bird of passage with a residence of his own somewhere else. He came and went as his fancy took him. To ask a child who his father was had become an almost indelicate question. Sometimes the child would reply, “Do you mean my father at the moment?” Others would simply shake their heads, being unwilling to talk about the monster who had begot them and whom they wished at all costs to forget.”