It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.