# Quote — Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead

> While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble.

- Author: [Jane Jacobs](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-jacobs.md)
- Book: [Dark Age Ahead](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-jacobs/dark-age-ahead.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs#Dark_Age_Ahead_(2004)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-jacobs/dark-age-ahead/while-politicians-clergy

## More from this book

> Privately run jails are a mark of American "reinvented government" that has been picked up by neoconservatives in Canada.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-jacobs/dark-age-ahead/privately-run-jails.md)

> I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-jacobs/dark-age-ahead/i-have-learned.md)

> Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-jacobs/dark-age-ahead/virtually-all-ideologues.md)