Noun
Political and social beliefs that hold the traditional nuclear family to be the essential ethical and moral unit of society.
(right-wing usage, euphemistic) Right-wing values like patriarchy and opposition to gay marriage, to family planning and legal abortion, and to feminism and women working outside the home.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgThere is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast. Peter DeFazio
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes. Christopher Lasch
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle. Jerry Falwell
You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values. Martin Lawrence
I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?' Wendy Cope
I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values. Dikembe Mutombo