Save the family, save the nation
March 22, 2013 ( Human Life International ) - The quote famously attributed to Vladimir Lenin is "Destroy the family , destroy the nation." Of course, he did not say this in the defense of family, but as part of his overall goal of destroying nations en route to a worldwide revolution. Bizarrely, Lenin still has defenders, though they mostly keep shop on the far-Left of the political spectrum, finding gainful employment mostly at universities, where they are saved from having to suffer the consequences of their own ideas. Such people sometimes complain that Lenin and other Communist dictators got a bad rap from history. It is true -- tens of millions of innocents murdered by state design can dampen enthusiasm for a leader's legacy. But what does it say about our nation that we refuse to learn from history, and especially how the decline of the family affects society? Unless one's head is buried in the sand, it is impossible to miss the parallels in ide