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Moynihan's scholarship in the 1960s, long before he became a senator, can be summed up his famous quotation:<ref>''Family and Nation'' (1965)</ref>

Moynihan's scholarship in the 1960s, long before he became a senator, can be summed up his famous quotation:<ref>''Family and Nation'' (1965)</ref>

:There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in [[broken families]], dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to [[male authority]], never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future -- that community asks for and gets chaos... And it is richly deserved.

{{Cquote|:There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in [[broken families]], dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to [[male authority]], never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future -- that community asks for and gets chaos... And it is richly deserved.}}

Moynihan had little influence in his Democratic Party.  A Catholic, Moynihan disapproved of the promotion of [[abortion]] by Democrats, declaring early in his career that "you women are ruining the Democratic Party with your insistence on abortion."  Moynihan supported prohibition of [[partial-birth abortion]] with this observation:<ref>Human Life Review at 13 (Summer 2003).</ref>

Moynihan had little influence in his Democratic Party.  A Catholic, Moynihan disapproved of the promotion of [[abortion]] by Democrats, declaring early in his career that "you women are ruining the Democratic Party with your insistence on abortion."  Moynihan supported prohibition of [[partial-birth abortion]] with this observation:<ref>Human Life Review at 13 (Summer 2003).</ref>