Summary
Elisabeth Roudinesco: The family in disarray
Today's family in the Western world, separated, recombined, single-parent, conceived by in vitro fertilization, same-sex, goes through a general state of disarray which, as some claim, leads to catastrophic consequences: abused children become rapists, abusive professors, and the suburbs of big cities are left at the mercy of crime. Today, a terrible specter looms over us: having lost its firm support with the loss of the father's authority, crippled by the release of moral restraints, stumbling due to the insecurity characteristic of the modern economy, today's family is becoming more and more unable to transmit the values it has represented for so long. At the same time, people have never defended the right to the family with such ferocity before, seeing in it a superior environment for individual development.
Since the father is no longer a father, women independently decide on conception, and homosexuals fight for the possibility of founding offspring, isn't this a judgment on the family and the possibility for each of us to realize ourselves as a subject?
In this book, the author searches for the origin of this disintegration, tries to discover the secret that lies behind these problems and predicts what our future will be like. waiting.
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