family values

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Political and social beliefs that hold the traditional nuclear family to be the essential ethical and moral unit of society. plural,plural-only
  2. Right-wing values like patriarchy and opposition to gay marriage, family planning and legal abortion, and to feminism and women working outside the home. euphemistic,plural,plural-only
    — But on “family values night,” as Marilyn Quayle described the session dominated by Republican women, the values took on an accusatory edge: […] the Vice President's wife made clear to cheering conservatives what she felt was at the center of family values: “Commitment, marriage and fidelity are not just arbitrary arrangements.”[…] [T]he difference is that the use of family values focuses more sharply on abortion, gay rights and the pre- and extramarital activities that go under the name of playing around or hanky-panky.
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