Liberal cities are also anti-family cities. Show me a city with a high tolerance level for in-your-face porn, drugs, prostitution and so on and I’ll show you a place where you don’t want to bring up kids. 

One such city is undoubtedly Amsterdam, although I read it is improving. I hope that’s true. I hope it’s becoming less ‘tolerant’ of the above, and those other life-style pathologies (e.g. high divorce) which are so destructive of family life and child welfare. 

Next week Amsterdam will be hosting the World Congress of Families which takes place every two years in a different city. It will bring together thousands of people from all over the world who believe in what we must now call the ‘traditional’ or ‘natural’ family of man, woman and child. 

Being a liberal city (if we must indeed call it that), there are many radical groups in Amsterdam who don’t want this conference taking place there at all. They think the conference is offensive to their ‘let-it-all-hang-out’ values. The offices of the conference organisers have been attacked, defaced and vandalised. 

I suppose this says it all. You would expect a place that is basically hostile to family values to be hostile to a conference that lauds and upholds those self-same values. The fact that it is ultimately socially suicidal to be anti-the traditional family is obviously lost on many of the residents of Amsterdam, and alas, on many of the residents of our own towns and cities as well.