David Clark joins in this episode to talk about the place of the family in society.He is an advocate for family and family values.David is a former military lawyer in the US Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps. He had a six-year stint in entrepreneurship – building an executive benefits consulting and insurance agency. Most of his career has been spent in public utility regulation. He is a commissioner of the Utah State Public Service Commission. David has been an attorney for about 43 years.
Some of the highlights of our conversation:
- The family is so critical to the advancement of our world – of society.
- It’s so stabilizing for children to be nurtured by their biological parents.
- The connection of family economy to the national economy: the family is the bedrock, laboratory, and the initial place of training in industry, morality, frugality, and all of the moral compass that we acquire.
- The family becomes a unit of production in the economy and the unit of consumption.
- Children need unconditional love and the understanding that they can make mistakes and still come back home and find acceptance and a warm embrace.
- One of the things I would recommend for a family to stay together is to make a conscious record of what they are doing and accomplishing together. As young children grow, record what they are accomplishing. Record what you are interested in and what you care about.
What experts say on the Family:
- “Married-parent households work, earn, and save at significantly higher rates than other family households as well as pay a lion share of all income taxes collected by the government.” The “discipline of chastity and monogamy… promotes a stronger economy, as promiscuous are more likely than the monogamous to adopt less economically productive living arrangements, whether cohabitation, stepfamilies, single parenting, or divorce.”
- “Civilization wouldn’t be possible without the role of the married women in motivating their husbands to be economically productive… First, she raises her future labour force; second, her at-home labour saves the family money; and third, by tending to details on the home front, she both allows and motivates her husband to be fully committed to his occupation… or profession.”
