The Family in Capitalism

"The family ... is precisely the place where the noncapitalist values have to be learned, where one is not free to choose his company and where one is not free to pursue self-interest to the limit. Because capitalism pursues the opposite goals - the freedom of each individual to choose and pursue his own ends the the limit of his power - the disintegration of marriage and family life is on e of the obvious characteristics of advanced capitalist societies."


Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks, p. 113