Feminism has not assisted the breakdown of family values.  It has offered a variety of options for women.  It has also increased the life span of the male species.  Where they were once working themselves to death, thanks to the fact that the wife can get out and make some money, as well as use birth control, men don’t have to create families of 7 and 8 children.  Of course, by reason, so has the life span of women increased.

First of all, personal values should be considered.  Not family values.  If two people who have the same personal values, get married and have children, their value system is what will be instilled into their children. 

What are family values if there are not similar personal values in mom and dad?

If anything has assisted the breakdown of family values, it is the societal pressures to marry and have children, assuming that everybody knows perfectly well how to do that.  Assuming that is what is best for everyone.  As though it is the only reason for living.  As though it will fix everything wrong with the single person and make their life more fulfilling. 

As though it is an institution of mothering for the man and subjugation for the woman.  Where she becomes responsible for his actions. 

Those who opine for family values, most usually are attempting to purvey their own personal values and have absolutely no qualms about devaluing the children of single women.  As though the single parent family doesn’t deserve status as a family.

Family doesn’t mean what it used to.  Thanks to feminism, women don’t have to live in misery all of their lives with some miserable guy who didn’t get what he needed growing up.  It isn’t unusual for men to become physically, mentally and sexually abusive when they feel caged or unhappy. 

There really are women who don’t want to put up with such behaviors.  There really are women who don’t want to submit themselves to the great psychological experiment of the “village family”.   Women who want something healthier.

Clearly, not all familial problems are the man’s fault.  Every situation is different.  But blaming the woman is often the way in which these issues are dealt with.  

Men and women just aren’t what they used to be.  And without equal pay it is difficult for a woman to make a decent living.  Marriage it seems, becomes an institution of survival and less a special arrangement of human beings who are important to each other.  As though marriage is a socially political avocation and procreation is a tax write off.