-— The institution will cease to exist in legal form. -—
It really ended in 1970 with no-fault divorce. Since then, the divorce rate has doubled.
“No-fault divorce” originated in the USSR in 1918, with the intention of annihilating the family.
The divorce rate in the US in the late 1800s was about 1 per 100, IIRC.
But, just because divorce devalues marriage, that doesn’t mean we can’t oppose further destruction.
Absolutely correct. Fundamental tenet of Marxism is the destruction of the family. Post revolution Russia also tried to remove the stigma of an illegitimate child.
Chapter II Communist Manifesto.
“Abolition [Aufhebung] of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists.
On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among the proletarians, and in public prostitution.
The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital.
Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.
But, you say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.
And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, &c.? The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.”