[DoreenMichele]

We live in a country where the government is separating children from parents at the border for the "crime" of seeking asylum.

The government has a lot of capacity to undermine and outright destroy strong family ties. Or to support and nurture them with policies like maternity leave, as most of the world does.

The US is the only wealthy developed nation without a good maternity leave policy.

Family has a lot to do with it. You can't neatly and cleanly separate other social stuff from family. It all interacts.

You grow up in a particular kind of family/social fabric, so you think that matters. You take those values with you to your government job or position as an elected official and perpetuate those values, for good or for ill.