According to Esolen and his reading of Pope Leo XIII's writings, the family is "the cradle of civil society" and the "foundation of all other societies." A family is not like a brick in a building or a group of workers in an ant colony; instead, it is a small but whole society, it reflects the life of God, who is a society of love, and it has rights that the State must recognize and respect.
Without families, society dissolves into chaos (cf. Lord of the Flies) or becomes totalitarian (cf. Brave New World).
In a family that begins with a good marriage, the father and mother raise children who are "animated by a good spirit and filled with reverence and love for God" and who seek to "obey those who rule justly and lawfully, to love all, and to injure no one," for Christian faith opposes tyranny and unjust laws. This faith helps our reason understand creation, and our reason clarifies our faith and protects it from error.
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