Clearly, liberalism may be a contributing factor, if and where it is primitively understood to entail for the individual no countervailing obligations before society. Clearly, the belief that liberalism is at fault for declining birth rates and dysfunctional families has gained currency in the West, which now produces popular books like Pat Buchanan’s
很明显，自由主义因素也许起了一定作用，如果它一开始被理解为是为个人而设且没有任何补偿性义务。很明显，由于持续降低的出生率和矛盾重重的家庭而陷入困境的自由主义已经在西方蔓延，这产生了诸如Pat Buchanan的畅销书《西方的消亡》。