Tocqueville follows in a long tradition of political thinkers-from Plato to Rousseau, from Aristotle to Montesquieu-who have been attentive to the links between the domestic and political realms. Further, in his great work Democracy in America, he argued that the nation’s republican political order rested upon this firm domestic foundation. The most famous visitor to the United States, Alexis de Tocqueville, praised the well-ordered home life of its citizens. The list of pathologies is long, and the statistics are grim. We are all too familiar with the decline of the American family and its associated phenomena: divorce, deadbeat dads, female-headed households, promiscuity, abortion, out-of-wedlock births, domestic violence, juvenile delinquency, and addiction.
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