The family is human ecology. People are born into families, and each individual does his or her part to make the family strong. In turn, communities and societies are the products of families cooperating with one another to promote mutual benefit and protection.
...government, and society itself, exist in order to help families thrive, not the other way around.
Even today, where it thrives, the family structure probably does more than 90 percent of the heavy lifting for government and society. The institution of the family carries a burden government cannot bear — and this becomes most obvious in places where the family is weakest as an institution. The government would collapse as a simple matter of math if it had to care for everyone's children as their parents currently do.