Savage was raised as one of four children of a cop and a homemaker in ethnic-Irish [[Chicago]]. He spent some time in Catholic school, and his writing bears scant traces of the church’s stark moral clarity, most notable in his impatience with postmodern or queer theorizing or anything that might overturn the centrality of the stable nuclear family. He is not a churchgoer, but liberal media describe him as "a cultural Catholic".<ref name="NYT2011">{{cite web |title=Married, With Infidelities |author=Mark Oppenheimer |publisher=NYT |date=30 Jun 2011 |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/magazine/infidelity-will-keep-us-together.html |quote=In May, the It Gets Better campaign was featured in an advertisement for Google’s Chrome Web browser.}}</ref> | Savage was raised as one of four children of a cop and a homemaker in ethnic-Irish [[Chicago]]. He spent some time in Catholic school, and his writing bears scant traces of the church’s stark moral clarity, most notable in his impatience with postmodern or queer theorizing or anything that might overturn the centrality of the stable nuclear family. He is not a churchgoer, but liberal media describe him as "a cultural Catholic".<ref name="NYT2011">{{cite web |title=Married, With Infidelities |author=Mark Oppenheimer |publisher=NYT |date=30 Jun 2011 |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/magazine/infidelity-will-keep-us-together.html |quote=In May, the It Gets Better campaign was featured in an advertisement for Google’s Chrome Web browser.}}</ref> |