“Kids are different today,”
I hear ev’ry mother say
Mother needs something today to calm her down
And though she’s not really ill
There’s a little yellow pill
She goes running for the shelter of a mother’s little helper
And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day.

For readers not familiar with music of the sixties, those words were written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and are the beginning of a popular song by the Rolling Stones.

Why are kids different today?  Why do so many mothers need a little yellow pill?  I would suggest it is because the thinking of our society has gradually been taken over by a philosophy that is hostile to the Christian concept of the family.  Here are some examples of that philosophy.

Our men and women . . . should be forbidden by law to live together in separate households, and all the women should be common to all the men; similarly, children should be held in common, and no parent should know his child, or child its parent.    Plato, The Republic  c. 375 B.C.

In order to raise children with equality, we must take them away from families and communally raise them.    Dr. Mary Jo Bane, Assistant Professor of Education, Wellesley College (1990)

No woman should be authorized to stay home to raise her children.  Society should be totally different.  Women should not have the choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.    Simone de Beauvoir, 1952

The school should be regarded as . . . an agency for the abolition of all artificial social distinctions and [for] organizing the energies of the nation for the promotion of the general welfare. [This] applies quite as strictly to the nursery, kindergarten, and the elementary school as to the secondary school and the university. [You will say] that I am flirting with indoctrination, and my answer again is in the affirmative.    Dr. George S. Counts, 1932

That the teachers should deliberately reach for power and then make the most of their conquest is my firm conviction.  To the extent that they are permitted to fashion the curriculum and procedures of the school they will definitely and positively influence the social attitudes, ideals and behaviour of the coming generation.    Counts, ibid

The Wundtian redefinition of “education” to mean feeding experiential data to a young brain and the nervous system, rather than the teaching of mental skills, led to the abolition of the traditional role of the teacher as educator.  Its place was taken by the concept of the teacher as guide in the socialization of the child . . . Dewey called for a levelling of of individual differences into a common pool of students who are the object of learning technicians devising the social order of the future.    Paolo Lionni, 1988

(Wilhelm Wundt was a professor at Leipzig University one hundred years ago who taught that man was a biologically determined creature devoid of spirit or will.  John Dewey was an American humanist and promoter of the public schools as a means of social engineering.  He believed there was no God, no soul, thus no need for the props of religion.)

This is a sampling of the thinkers who have shaped our society and whose ideas are continuing to shape it.  All quotations are taken from The War Against the Family, copyright 1992 by William D Gairdner and published by Stoddart Publishing of Toronto.