Why Do Communists Seek to Destroy the Nuclear Family?

             Present-day Americans do not understand the danger of communism. As a child, I was taught the dangers of communism, and I grew up with a full understanding that communism is the opposite of capitalism. One of the dangers of communism is the destruction of the nuclear family.

            Kimberly Ells is the author of The Invincible Family: Why the Global Campaign to Crush Motherhood and Fatherhood Can’t Win. Ells is also a policy adviser for Family Watch International. In an article titled “Arizona Legislators Propose Communist-Style ‘Community Schools,’” Ells quoted a twentieth-century Russian communist as saying: 

Children, like soft wax, are very malleable… We must rescue children from the harmful influence of the family… From the earliest days of their little lives, they must find themselves under the beneficent influence of Communist schools… To oblige the mother to give her child to the Soviet state – that is our task.

            Ells then explained how the communists would take the children from their parents. “The government would provide comprehensive care centers for all children. In these centers, children would be ‘supervised by trained pedagogical and medical personnel’ who would fulfill all the children’s educational, physical, social, and emotional needs.”

            According to Ells, the State of Arizona is moving “toward embracing a communist-style education model called ‘community schools’ that is gaining traction around the globe.” She explained that the Arizona Legislature introduced a bill last weeks calling “for the development of community schools.” The plan is to have these schools “partner with one or more community-based organizations to coordinate academic, social and health services” for children and their families.” The bill is meant to “transform participating schools into increasingly full-service community centers.”

            Ells continued by explaining that liberals have big plans to use schools. She quoted Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education under President Barack Obama as saying in 2009, “The more schools become the hearts of family life, the better our students are going to do…. Children desperately need some sense of stability, they need some anchor in their lives, community schools are huge, huge ways to do that.”

            To me, Arizona’s move – as well as others – to put schools in the center of a child’s life is scary. The family is core building block of a society, and “the home [is] the hub of stable family life.” Schools and all other organizations should support the home in every way possible and not usurp the place of the family in importance in the lives of children.