I am strongly in support of family values: look at the House of Atreus, the House of Laius, the Karamazovs.... I particularly approve of the example of family values set by the great religious founders. The family values of the Old Testament families would look appropriate on the pages of the National Enquirer. Jesus's family: an unwed mother, the son wandering the roads at an early age, troublemaker, disrespectful to his mother, one father who disappears and is never spoken of again, and the other one suspiciously sadistic. The Buddha abandoned his wife and newborn son. Muhammed's marriage to the "older woman" (what is she doing running her own business?) was obviously shocking to the norms of the time. And I draw a discreet veil over Krishna's antics.

yours, Peter T.