There's a conservative element that is yearning for an ideal that never was; the nuclear family with mom in the kitchen, pop putting in his 9 to 5, and two-and-a-half children.
The closest America got to hitting this "ideal" was in the fifties. Families move out in to suburbia, college-educated women set aside career ambitions in search of domestic bliss. The result? The Feminine Mystique. Women were miserable! Introduce, Valium. It turns out this failure couldn't even be medicated away. Betty Frieden does a good job of explaining why this was not enough.
Freud contributed to this mass delusion by offering that all sorts of mental illnesses are a result of a disorder of the mother-child bond. Not too long ago, it was thought that male homosexuality was caused by overbearing mothers. That's debunked today.
It annoys me when the nostalgic right suggests that this nuclear family model is biblical. It's not. The ancient families were extended family with a patriarch. Grandparents, relatives, and servants all were under one roof. That's a lot more energy, relationships, and interaction than can be offered by suburbia.