The president of The Heritage Foundation says America’s Founders couldn’t possibly have foreseen what he called the regrettably “weak, fractured, and hollow” state of the family today and offered some prescriptions on what should be done about it.

“[O]ur Founders, for all their erudition, prescience, and political imagination, could never have envisioned the state of the American family today,” Kevin Roberts told attendees Tuesday at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington.

“[T]he American family—the spiritual heart and soul that animates that Constitution—has grown weak, fractured, and hollow,” Roberts said. 

Roberts, a historian who has served as the president of The

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