GLORIA STEINEM’S REAL LEGACYTHE NUCLEAR FAMILY IN RUINS

Send us Fan Mail Gloria Steinem died at 92. The obituaries call her the face of women’s freedom. They skip the family. This is not a eulogy. It is an audit of second-wave feminism and the collapse of the American nuclear family — marriage recast as captivity, children recast as optional, fathers recast as extras, and family courts built on top of that story. Steinem co-founded Ms. magazine. She popularized the line that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. She had an abortion at 2...