Family values are political and social beliefs that hold the nuclear family to be the essential ethical and moral unit of society. Familialism is the ideology that promotes the family and its values as an institution.
Although the phrase is vague and has shifting meanings, it is most often associated with social and religious conservatives. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the term has been frequently used in political debate, to claim that the world has seen a decline in family values since the end of the Second World War.
Typically, the term is used by the media to refer to Christian values, but in a 1998 Harris survey it was defined as "loving, taking care of, and supporting each other" by 52% of women and 42% of men, as "knowing right from wrong and having good values" by 38% of women and 35% of men, and as the traditional family by 2% of women and 1% men. The survey also noted that 93% of women thought that society should value all types of families.
Since 1980, the Republican Party has used the issue of family values to attract socially conservative voters. While family values remains a rather vague concept, social conservatives usually understand the term to include some combination of the following principles (also referenced in the 2004 Republican Party platform):
This how you make me feel, this how you make me feel
This how you make me feel, that's how I know it's real
Take you around the world, take you around the world
Take you around the world, take you around the world
Cause you my baby girl, cause you my baby girl
Cause you my baby girl, cause you my my my
Cause you my baby girl, cause you my baby girl
Cause you my baby girl, cause you my my my
This how you make me feel, that's how I know it's real
Take you around the world, cause you my baby girl
I know you feelin good, I know you feelin right
You see me ridin, you ridin wit me your shit is tight
Self-made millionaire I find myself
My success God bless not defined by wealth, c'mon
We live in crazy times, niggaz done lost they minds
We wanna fuck every fuckin chicken we fuckin find
But then there comes a time, when you start to grow
But you ain't growin with me and it's startin to show
Before I say I can't live without ya
Let's sit and have a talk about family values, now listen
I see you got some kids, that you ain't never with
Your baby father put hands on you, some crazy shit
So he gon' pay for that, fuck with niggaz who rap
Most of that quality time is spent on your back
Now before I devote the rest of my life
Can you at least show a nigga you can boil some rice
(ha ha ha) Is that too much to ask, am I movin too fast
Do you have anything to offer me besides some ass
You think you high class, the upper echelon
But spend all your rent money in the hair salon
I'm 'sposed to help you out, but it just made me think
You ain't ready for the world, you ain't ready for me
Damn baby I see they drivin you crazy
Because your body's amazing I know you want it to phase me
But hey - I seen a lot of girls, messed up a lot of curls
You ain't gon' keep me with sex when only sex occurs
Want you to think ahead, not just give me head
Want you to make a household baby, not just a bed
I know the scene is what you seem to see
Where you needin to be, but believe you me
Baby girl they just gon' use you up, fuck you and bruise you up
They ain't got no family values they ain't gon' choose you up
We disrespect ourselves, we think we livin well
I could be wrong in this song but only time'll tell
You may be thinkin hey X, you just a hypocrite
You actin like you never called a girl a fuckin bitch
Nah it's not that (that) but it's like this (this)
Lately I've been working in a factory in an industry yeah
Lately I've been working in a factory wage slave that's me yeah
Lately I've been working in a factory in an industry yeah
Lately I've been working filling barrels 10, 003 yeah
How much wine is enough, to sell to americans
How many products are enough, to sell to Americans
How much profit is enough for one rich man to make off my labor
'cause he knows damn well it comes at the expense of me having time for my children
Lately I've been working in his factory in his winery yeah
Lately I've been working filling barrels 10, 003 yeah
Lately I've been working in his factory so I can feed his babies
Lately I've been working in his factory, wage slave that's me yeah
How much wine is enough, to sell to americans
How many products are enough, to sell to Americans
How much profit is enough for one rich man to make off my labor
'cause he knows damn well it comes at the expense of me having time for my children
";It doesn't help matters when prime time TV
has Murphy Brown. I know it's not fashionable
to talk about moral values, but we need to do it...";
It started on a Labor Day
A chance for us to get away
Everyone in the house
And year by year things moved around
But everybody still got down in the house
And seldom do we have a plan
But everybody lends a hand
Everyone in the house
Making sure we have our fun
While gettin' done what must be done in the house
Pardon me, did you say something?
What are you looking at?
Tell me, what's your problem?
Are you counting heads?
Are you counting things?
What are you looking for?
Listen there's no problem
'Cause we got them, we already got them
We got family values
";Some people say Judeo-Christian values are code
words. Well they are code words. Code words for...";
Politics and money scams
Endless verbal traffic jams
Keep it out of the house
'Cause you'll get what you give to me
A little r-e-s-p-e-c-t in the house
'Cause you know some of us have been around
And some of us still get around
But we all in the house
So don't get on our evil side
'Cause we like it rough and we're nationwide
Pardon me, did you say something?
We're all entitled to have our own opinion
And you're standing there like you smelled something
But you're entitled to even bad opinions";Many of our generation glamorize
casual sex and drug use, evaded responsibility,
and trashed authority.";
We gonna have a good time everybody
Because the family is all in the house!
";Our policy must be premised on, it must reinforce
values such as family, hard work, integrity,
personal responsibility...";
Made him love mom
Saw what that did to him
Made him love dad
Saw what that did to him
Made him love god
Saw what that did to him
Made him love death
Saw what that did to him
";I know it's not fashionable
to talk about moral values...";
Shut up!
intertwined thoughts with yours
stitched up wounds are open once again
appreciation of my silence
will be held no more
so close to your desires
but I will not encourage my blood
to be spilled for indignity
and I would cry but it would kill all that I know
still utter deceit enters my flesh
and I contemplate the end as I grasp for breath
bearing bloody memories while kneeling
down letting my insides pour out
and my enraged memories won't let me open
I had a sister named Emma Missisippi
Is a river that floats in the states
Just like the memory and the wisdom of the water
Our souls were connected in so many ways
Even though we haven´t talked in a while
I´m still waiting for the day to come when you will arrive
I´m sorry if I ruined happy times we´ve been through
But now I wonder, if I can spend my days without you and
I had a mother, and her name was Carolina
Carolina is a state in the states
I think there´s fifty but there´s only one mother
And she won´t even look in my face
You know I´d give it all to be loved by you again
But everything´s my fault so I carry the blame
But now I´m growing, I get older while the days pass by
Soon I´ll be dying thinking you won´t even look me in the eyes
And it´s sad
So sad
Family values
That we had, it´s just a memory
In your mind, we´ve gone bad
There´s no love
I had a father named Mr Engelbert
Engelbert Humperdinck sings really good
I haven´t heard him but I hear my fathers voice
It´s in the dreams where things are like they should
I miss your love wich came naturally
Sometimes I cry, when I think about how things used to be
Well at least come and visit me for only one time
Daddy I love you but I know you won´t pay me no mind
And it´s sad
So sad
Family values
That we had
I´ts just a memory in your mind
We´ve gone bad
There´s no love
When we were kids, we were told to respect our elders and what they did, only speak when spoken to.
When she was stripped, of the trust bestowed to us by the one she loves,
she didn't know she could run to you.
It's a sad time we live in, little girls grow up scared of their dads,
it's a feeling they should never have.
What kind of person can do this?
How worthless is the word innocence, to her dear old loving dad?
Now her mom sits, wondering why her baby goes through these fits, of anger, torment, and of rage.
Oh please dear God, pick up this small beauty and show her you and all the wonders you can do.
He showed her exactly how to hate.
Him a full grown man, she was only eight.
He stole what was most precious to her.