{"id":1456101,"date":"2022-04-27T22:59:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T02:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1456101"},"modified":"2022-04-27T22:59:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T02:59:39","slug":"shapiro-at-iowa-state-fiercely-defends-traditional-family-my-system-for-raising-my-family-is-correct-and-it-should-be-defended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shapiro-at-iowa-state-fiercely-defends-traditional-family-my-system-for-raising-my-family-is-correct-and-it-should-be-defended\/","title":{"rendered":"Shapiro At Iowa State Fiercely Defends Traditional Family: \u2018My System For Raising My Family Is Correct And It Should Be Defended\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshapiro-at-iowa-state-fiercely-defends-traditional-family-my-system-for-raising-my-family-is-correct-and-it-should-be-defended%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1456101&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/Ben-Shapiro-3.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Speaking at Iowa State University on Wednesday night, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro passionately defended the traditional two-parent home comprised of a mother and father when asked for parenting advice, saying, \u201cWhen it comes to defending our own values, it\u2019s not that I deserve the liberty to raise my family as I see fit, it\u2019s that my system for raising my family is correct, and it should be defended, and it deserves defense on its merits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A young man at the Q&#038;A following Shapiro\u2019s speech, titled \u201cAmerican Wokeness Must Be Destroyed,\u201d asked, \u201cI got a little question for all the amazing men and women out in the crowd today who are looking to be parents in the future. Because in a world that is becoming exponentially more and more liberal and woke, how might we go about raising the next generation, especially since we can\u2019t shield them from everything?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, this is my chief concern, so as I say, I have three kids, 8, 5 and 2, and they are the only thing I care about in life,\u201d Shapiro replied, joking to the SRO crowd of thousands, \u201cI love you guys, but I care about my kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the only thing I care about when it comes to my kids is protecting their innocence and protecting the value system that I wish to transmit to them,\u201d he continued. \u201cThat means that I live in a community of like-minded people. I think that is deeply, deeply important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a big fan of the Big Sort,\u201d he said, referring to the idea that Americans would migrate to areas where politically like-minded people live. \u201cI think it\u2019s a really good thing. I think that people who have conservative values should live in areas where people reflect those values and send their kids to schools that reflect those values. That\u2019s why I send my kids to a private Jewish day school. That\u2019s why I\u2019m a big fan of school vouchers. That\u2019s why I think that what Ron DeSantis did in Florida with the Parental Rights in Education Bill is extraordinarily important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then he segued to some advice for parents: \u201cThe biggest thing that I would say is actually a piece of advice that my parents gave me, which is always take your kids seriously. If you take your kids seriously from the time that they\u2019re very little and take their concerns seriously, they\u2019ll keep talking to you as you get older.\u201d Shapiro then referred to the possibility of that not happening, which he said \u201cis my great fear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, I\u2019m not really in a position to give full parenting advice because my oldest is 8 years old; we\u2019ll see how they turn out when they\u2019re 25,\u201d he admitted. \u201cTo the point where they are right now, keeping open communication and also setting very clear rules, and making clear that there are societal roles that are necessary to be filled. I think that human happiness, too often we tie human happiness to various systems of ethics \u2014 you have virtue ethics, which is sort of Aristotelian ideals about virtue and the Golden Mean and trying to cultivate in yourself characteristics that make you a better human being. And then you have deontological ethics, which is sort of Kantian ethics \u2014 you just apply this rule and this rule, then our kids will be okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I really think is that the way you bring up kids is to fulfill certain roles, which means putting responsibility on them very early,\u201d he asserted. \u201cSo, for my kids, they take care of each other. For my kids, they go out and do charity events. For my kids, they go to synagogue, and they go on a regular basis. Giving them things to do and teaching them that these roles in life are very important. That the role of mommy, which they see when they see my wife operate in that role every single day, modeling that, is supremely important for my daughters. And the role of father, which is what my son \u2014 if you ask my son what he wants to be, it\u2019s the cutest thing in the world, if you ask my son what he wants to be today, he always says a daddy. That is his number one answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that\u2019s what all young boys should say,\u201d he declared. \u201cSo, bottom line is, you preserve those roles. I think we should be very aggressive in defending these roles, by the way. I think one of the mistakes that the Right makes when it comes to defending values is very often, we speak in terms of liberty, and that\u2019s great when it comes to the government. But when it comes to defending our own values, it\u2019s not that I deserve the liberty to raise my family as I see fit, it\u2019s that my system for raising my family is correct, and it should be defended, and it deserves defense on its merits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same?\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>Become a member now and join our mission.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at Iowa State University on Wednesday night, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro passionately defended the traditional two-parent home comprised of a mother and father when asked for parenting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":276,"featured_media":1480763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1456101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}