Many of us have been victims of dysfunctional families to some degree or another. If our families are sick, they produce sick children! The solution lies in strong, morals-building families.

Look at what our first two presidents believed about the family.

“In short, the Founders’ generation believed that men’s and women’s interests were complementary, and they saw marriage as the divinely ordained, naturally good way to organize life. George Washington had started his presidency by pointing out that public life must be grounded on private morality. His successor, John Adams, devoted husband of Abigail, was even more specific: the Foundation of national morality must be laid in private families. He went on to say that children learn the meaning of morality, religion, and respect for the law from the habitual fidelity of their parents to one another.” (Angelo Codevilla, The Character of Nations, p. 221.)

John Adams said the “Foundation of national morality must be laid in private families.”

If the families are not moral, how can the nation be moral? Our forefathers laid the foundation of a great nation. They built America with God’s blessings. Today, we are destroying America and bringing God’s curses upon ourselves. Today, Americans have departed from the ideals of our forefathers.

We reason religion and morality are nice, but certainly not necessary for the well-being of the nation. We have been led to falsely assume private morality and public duty are separate.

George Washington would have been appalled by such reasoning.

Robert Roy, Auburn