Why is the U.S. the land of "family values?"?

[who is #1?]

Stems from the Feminist Mistake in the 60s. (that's a play on the title of a famous book "Feminine Mystique" of that era which I claim credit for inventing)
"Equal Rights for women" is good and necessary. But it has had undesirable side effects. Women don't need men any more. Men are now an option. At the same time Americans were propagandized into thinking the "nuclear family" was a good idea. Prior to that multi-generational family structure was prevalent. All has to do with LBJ's "Great Society" Welfare State.

The root of all this is of course Soviet infiltration. Destroy the family structure and a culture is more easily taken down. Why else do you think all the commies infested our universities? And media, and now the courts, and now the White House is crawling with them, and 60s Marxist revolutionaries. (Well, actually not Marxists, more like Leninists and Maoists...)

"Family Values" is a term which plays to the "religious right". But how many of them have put grandma in "the home", an institution, instead of having her teach the children as she should be doing?

Our society is unhealthy and government craving ultimate power is making it worse.

I think women are still respected in Texas. As they should be.