At the World Congress of Families II held last November in Geneva, Dr Bruce Hafen argued that women are the agents of civilisation.We are now living through the biggest change in attitudes and laws about the family in five centuries. Writing recently in the Atlantic Monthly, Frances Fukyama regards today’s family disintegration as a central part of what he calls ‘the Great Disruption’, a wave of history as significant as the shift from the age of agriculture to the industrial revolution. Essenti…
