Kimberly Ells on Why Real Power Lies Within Families

Political changes come and go. But through it all, as policy adviser Kimberly Ells points out, the family persists and always rises again.

Kimberly Ells is a policy adviser at Family Watch International. Her new book is "The Invincible Family: Why the Global Campaign to Crush Motherhood and Fatherhood Can’t Win." Courtesy of Kimberly Ells

Families are the fundamental units of society, and families—mothers in particular, who are connected physically with new life and handed babies the moment they are born—are really what govern the private sphere. Yet this isn’t a story Kimberly Ells has heard fully told elsewhere, as she explains in her new book “The Invincible Family.”

Today, the fight for political power encompasses every issue, so it’s not surprising that those set on accumulating power have turned their attention toward taking it from the private realm, Ells says. What did surprise Ells was when she learned about the movement for “children’s sexual rights” and its influential base of global supporters.