Kaplan’s Reviews > Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism > Status Update
Kaplan
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“In a report sponsored by the AEI in 1981, the public health theorists & former New Left activists Lowell Levin & Ellen Idler identified ‘self-care’ as an ideal alternative to the welfare state…For them, the burdens of care engendered by the deinstitutionalization of public hospital patients called for a simultaneous reinstitutionalization of the private family, church, & charity as natural conduits for self-care.”
— Feb 19, 2021 07:04PM
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Kaplan’s Previous Updates
Kaplan
is on page 84 of 416
“If neoliberals were adamant that the economic obligations of family should be enforced even when the legal and affective bonds of kinship had broken down, social conservatives were intent on actively rekindling the family as a moral institution based on the unpaid labor of love. Both agreed, however, that the private family (rather than the state) should serve as the primary source of economic security.”
— Feb 13, 2021 07:42PM
