DISINFO: The Elites want to end the emotional ties of the family
SUMMARY
Elites have severed the emotional bonds of the family by isolating parents from children and putting grandparents in residences for the elderly.
RESPONSE
Conspiracy theory. The article provides no evidence to support its claim that “élites” are deliberately undermining family bonds. The article contains a recurring pro-Kremlin narrative portraying the West as a decadent and immoral society in which the family institution is collapsing and claiming that Western governments and “global élites” seek to deliberately undermine and destroy traditional family values, patriarchal societies and religion. The notion of "threatened values" is one of the master narratives used in pro-Kremlin disinformation, in order to suggest that those committed to decency and traditional values are under attack from liberal “global élites”. The article’s message is also consistent with recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about all-powerful global élites or secret élites ruling the world and controlling leaders. See previous cases claiming that the UN and US attack the institution of the family in Slavic countries and that Belgium prosecutes the propagation of traditional family values.