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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural The moral and social values traditionally maintained and affirmed within a family.
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- noun
Political andsocial beliefs that hold thenuclear family to be the essentialethical andmoral unit ofsociety .
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skipvia commented on the word family values
See dog-whistle, thanks to chained_bear.
October 29, 2007
vendingmachine commented on the word family values
"No newspapers or TV, unless, of course, we hear through the beach grapevine that, once again, a Republican "family values" freak has got caught with his wee-wee pinched in the zipper of a dress not belonging to his wife."
June 19, 2015