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Robert C. Byrd: “If we are to blunt the centrifugal forces that are corrupting our children and teenagers, and if we are to redeem the…”

On the recordJuly 31, 1992
If we are to blunt the centrifugal forces that are corrupting our children and teenagers, and if we are to redeem the future before we pass the point of no return-and we are almost there--then I firmly believe that the traditional nuclear family must be strengthened and restored to its central place in American society.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
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Jul 31, 1992

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Speaking on moral decline and the family in American society.

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