Types of Families--Communist, Fascist, Democratic.

This article discusses different family types. The general political struggle of two World Wars and the revolutionary demoralism accompanying them has produced a great many propagandistic, Utopian, and indirect experience conceptions concerning the relation between political regime and family type. One conception is that the democratic regime has a democratic family type which is midway between the authoritarianism of the fascist groups, on the one hand, and the complete Utopian freedom of the Marxian family on the other. The assumption back of this theory is that perfect freedom exists in the communist family and perfect tyranny exists in the fascist family. In between is a democratic family with its mixture of authoritarianism and complete freedom. U.S. has been deluged by quack family doctors who recommend such fantastic things as that you must not speak reprovingly to your own children because such is the act of a tyrant and merely makes a fascist out of your child. The good citizen has been told that if he must stray from the normal everyday family behavior customary of the old type that the most favored direction is toward mildness and freedom. Then, if the child does not become a good democratic citizen, he will at least become a good communist.