About OCPA

Freedom needs stability. People who live with too much uncertainty or fear will sacrifice freedom for safety. Just as stability allows people to create and invest in the marketplace, it also lets people build up “social capital”—the network of relationships and trust that undergird any successful society. And at the core of a stable society is the traditional family.

The family is also the most local form of government. When we talk about “local control” and “self-government,” we should think first of the family rather than city hall or the school board. Out of families come other kinds of voluntary organizations: churches, social clubs, sports leagues, charities, and more. We should resist government’s tendency to expand and crowd out family and community. After all, there is a stark difference between social structures based on trust, hope, and love, and government programs that are always, ultimately, based on coercion.

Because the traditional family is at the core of a stable society, and because it is under such fierce attack from the cultural left, it deserves greater support from public policy. Through our research and advocacy, OCPA’s Center for Culture and the Family is advancing public policies which will reverse family decline and promote healthy cultural norms that are under assault by woke radicals.