day no. 16,270: the founding of a family is like the founding of a nation

"The founding of a family is the personal adventure of a free man... The act of founding the family, I repeat, was an individual adventure outside the frontiers of the State" -- G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils

The founding of a family is like the founding of a nation with similar risks and rewards that reach for generations. It is, as Chesterton says, an adventure. It is the romance of pioneering, planting, conquering, and cultivating. It is a self-governed man and a self-governed woman joining together to form a new government: a nation in seed form.

The man was given his last name and his citizenship by birth, but he gives his last name to the woman and thus begins a new nation by covenant. And all of this would be well and good if it were not for a State that imagined it had something to do with it. 

The family is the most fundamental threat to a State that imagines itself a sovereign benefactor. When the family comes along and says, in essence, "No, thanks. We got this," it sends the unrestrained State into cussing spells. There is nothing a totalitarian State fears more than a man who doesn't need or want them in his business. The family is a resistance movement from day one in that kind of society.  It is what Burke calls a "little platoon." It is set up to survive without the State's help or permission. And few things bring a State with a God-complex into fainting fits like a group of people who don't need someone to tell them what's best for them.

A household with a Father in Heaven and a father in the master bedroom has no need for a father in the capitol.

Joshua 24:15

And if it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.