ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that underlying all of the major changes in American life is the socialist current, which the people imported and ingested—without first studying the source. It begins with the socialist influence on American life. The chapter suggests that the travails of Soviet social engineering contain such important warnings for modern Americans and provides such important insights into the modern American family. A University of Maryland School of Medicine study found that American children in poor inner city families who had fathers around them had greater feelings of competence and were less likely to be depressed. Trepidations about the effect upon children of the modern choices of modern parents are relegated to oblivion before they are given a hearing. Relativism leads to a void in adult's lives and in the lives of the children they raise. When American individualism, leftist cynicism toward Western tradition, and European relativism merge, the results are nothing short of anarchic.
