Block Grants and the End of Children’s Rights

In today’s politics of the family, the right has claimed the high ground. They’re the ones laying down the law on “family values.” Come to think of it, they’re the ones who concocted that tendentious term and slipped it into current political discourse. The left has allowed itself to be thrown on the defensive—as though it had no distinctive principles to advocate in defending and strengthening America’s families.

The right’s “family va...