The Judaic western family IS such a mess when taking an unbiased 'from the outside looking in' look at it I cannot take anyone who promotes this institution as the end-all be-all to our problems, or who believe the family unit is the original building block of the nation-state, seriously in any matter. These types of people demonstrate with their praise of the western family the fact that they do not understand the root causes of most of our biggest problems as a society, whether it be cultural, spiritual, or mental\psychological. And lastly, to offer up the western family unit as the foundation block of the state and as the cure to all of our society's issues is founded in laziness and ignorance. We got to the place we are now BECAUSE of the western family unit, it certainly could never be the cure!!!