For example, if you had a society with extreme, like hypothetically, with extremely strong parents, extremely strong neighborhoods, would you need 10,000 laws to monitor every part of human behavior? No. We used to have that country. It's not a hypothetical. It was the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and early 80s. We had very strong families. We had high marriage rates. 50% of marriages did not result in divorce. And we were a freer society. Every person, if you talk to your parents, say, how did your parents parent you in the 1960s? (51:26–51:37)
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Asserts that the U.S. had strong families in the 1950s to early 1980s.
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