[PeterPrinciple]

Imagine not having a clue who your father was

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I see your point but don’t go over the above point too lightly. It is interesting that this is one of the points that Frederick Douglas laments in his books. As a slave it was a key item to him.

Personally, I am so glad my parents stayed together even though it was a hard marriage for them. It was one of the gifts they gave that I only appreciated in later life.

[EternalVigilance]

Marriage, parentage, family life, these are all the natural basis for legal property rights.

Slaveholders had to at least attempt to destroy God’s natural order of things, because to order things according to the natural law would be to destroy the corrupt foundations of the institution of slavery.

These questions have great relevance for us today, because we have many in power who are doing all they can to destroy marriage and the natural family.

If they are allowed to finish the job, marriage will NOT be the only casualty. Property rights, inheritance rights, liberty, republican self-government, all of these things will go onto the ash heap with it.

We and our children will find ourselves in a similar predicament to what Freddy found himself in.

[EternalVigilance]

It should also be pointed out that Marx and Ehgels admitted freely that communism could not be enacted in a society in which family life remained intact.