What G. K. Chesterton thinks about family

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English writer and Christian apologist (1874 to 1936); author of Orthodoxy.

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5 dated positions, c. 1910, in their own words. Our reading of what G. K. Chesterton has said — not written or endorsed by them.

1. c. 1910

   Our readingThe home is older than law and stands outside the State

   Their wordsIt may be said that this institution of the home is the one anarchist institution. That is to say, it is older than law, and stands outside the State.

   ↗What's Wrong with the World (1910)gutenberg.org All 19 from this book

3. c. 1910

   Our readingThe point of marriage is to survive the moment incompatibility becomes undeniable

   Their wordsThe whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

   ↗What's Wrong with the World (1910)gutenberg.org All 19 from this book

5. c. 1910

   Our readingWidely spread private property, one house per family, is what people really want

   Their wordsThe idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man one house—this remains the real vision and magnet of mankind.

   ↗What's Wrong with the World (1910)gutenberg.org All 19 from this book

7. c. 1910

   Our readingRaising one’s own children is no smaller a career than teaching other people’s

   Their wordsHow can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone?

   ↗What's Wrong with the World (1910)gutenberg.org All 19 from this book

9. c. 1910

   Our readingUnless the parents are saved, the children cannot be saved

   Their wordsNow I am concerned, first and last, to maintain that unless you can save the fathers, you cannot save the children; that at present we cannot save others, for we cannot save ourselves.

   ↗What's Wrong with the World (1910)gutenberg.org All 19 from this book