[ApplegateRanch]

She added: "Our three-bedroom place was already overcrowded with her sisters Coco and Ritzy, her brother Tarot, Soya's boyfriend Jake and one of her sister's babies.

Oh, how cozy! "The family that bunks together, breeds together"?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

That sound in the distance is Mark Steyn muttering, “tolja so.”

[andy58-in-nh]

America is heading straight down the same road: rewarding bad behavior, irresponsibility and failure.... and cruelly punishing their opposites. Vice is now virtue. The culture is no longer ennobling but malignant, and where once intact, traditional families with working spouses formed the very backbone of society, they are today the exception, not the rule.

As the product of a deliberate and intentional plan, one patiently executed over the course of years: all of the building blocks of ordered society - responsible citizens, their families, neighborhoods, communities, churches, synagogues, charities, membership organizations - have seen their autonomy and influence give way to the rise of the State and subject to the whims of those who both serve and direct its authority.