Earlier this week, the Edmund Burke Foundation published “National Conservatism: A Statement Of Principles,” signed by a who’s who of conservative populists including Larry Arnn of Hillsdale College, Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution, Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, Mark Meadows of the Conservative Partnership Institute, Christopher Rufo of the Manhattan Institute, and Peter Thiel of Founders Fund.

The eighth principle of the statement is titled “Family and Children” and says, “We believe the traditional family is the source of society’s virtues and deserves greater support from public policy. The traditional family, built around a lifelong bond between a man and a woman, and on a lifelong bond between parents and children, is the foundation of all other achievements of our civilization. … Economic and cultural conditions that foster stable family and congregational life and child-raising are priorities of the highest order.”