A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.
If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'
Everything you say in a family carries meaning from all that was said before. So with friends, there is less likelihood of a few words triggering associations from childhood, where our deepest emotions often are rooted.
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
Everything family does is reflection on the other people.
I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.
Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.
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.