What Will Save the American Family? | Roger Severino

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4.7 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

We are surrounded by endless choices for engagement and entertainment, but feel more isolated than ever. And nowhere is that more keenly felt than in the family. What should be the central node of human society, for many, has become distant. Fathers are absent. Children feel disconnected. Fertility has fallen. Government programs have replaced providers. Mass media has replaced human connection.

One thing we should all be able to agree on. It’s time to stop scrolling and look up. It’s time for a renaissance in the family.

Roger Severino and his colleagues here at the Heritage Foundation want to do just that. I sat down with Roger to discuss the new special report, released by Heritage this week: Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 years.

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Heritage Family Paper: Saving America by Saving the Family: https://www.heritage.org/family/saving-america-by-saving-the-family

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0:00.0	Three, two, one, zero, all engine run.
0:06.6	There is no other institution that has the ability uniquely.
0:11.3	Without a heritage, every generation starts over.
0:14.4	Ask not.
0:15.3	To remind the current regime.
0:18.6	We the people tell the government what
0:20.8	it is allowed
0:21.5	to do.
0:22.2	All
0:22.8	all
0:23.7	action to
0:25.5	get back in
0:26.5	their
0:26.7	box and
0:27.3	stay there.
0:28.0	Lift-d
0:28.7	we have a
0:29.4	from the
0:32.7	Heritage Foundation
0:33.6	this is
0:34.6	Heritage
0:35.0	Explains.
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