caa a22 4500 388110139 CHVBK 20180307125351.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0265052500002338 doi S0265052500002338 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0265052500002338 Morse Jennifer Roback Economics, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University No Families, No Freedom: Human Flourishing in a Free Society [Elektronische Daten] [Jennifer Roback Morse] This essay has one simple theme: the family does a very important job that no other institution can do. What is that job? Inside a family, helpless babies are transformed from being self-centered bundles of impulses, desires, and emotions to being adult people capable of social behavior of all kinds. Why is this job important? The family teaches the ability to trust, cooperate, and self-restrain. Neither the free market nor selfgoverning political institutions can survive unless the vast majority of the population possesses these skills. Why is the family uniquely situated to teach these skills and the values that go with them? People develop these qualities in their children as a side effect of loving them. What does this have to do with a free society? Contracts and free political institutions, the foundational structures of a free society, require these attributes that only families can inculcate. Without loving families, no society can long govern itself, for the family teaches the skills of individual self-governance. Copyright © Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation 1999 Social Philosophy and Policy Cambridge University Press 16/1(1999), 290-314 0265-0525 16:1<290 1999 16 SOY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052500002338 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052500002338 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Morse Jennifer Roback Economics, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Philosophy and Policy Cambridge University Press 16/1(1999), 290-314 0265-0525 16:1<290 1999 16 SOY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge