One must point out that the patriarchal family unit was a well entrenched foundation when the United States became a country, just as it was when all but the most recent other democratic nations were established, the Founding Fathers never imagined it would be abolished or undermined in the fashion it has becuase the concept of total political equality between the sexes to them was quite literally insane.
It has been the social model for all of known human history and every nation that has attempted to abandon it (soviet union case in point as well as other comunist nations )have indeed fallen if not in title in practice; China for instance has embraced a socialist view of captitalism despite its nostalgic clinging to the title: so to argue that it shouldnt be the social model for the 21st Western society is naive and one-sided conception of not only history (becuase it so obviously ignores history) past and present but of sociological and political future as well.
But thats no surprise as feminisim is more in keeping with comunisium than democracy.
No system of Democracy has ever held principles that granted all members of the society equal access to power nor have they allowed all members universally recognized freedoms and liberties; until the experiment of feminisim reared it's misguided head. It would be in fact thier greatest fear. There was allways a distinction made between not only the sexes but many other areas as well, and the Founding Fathers attempted to incorperate these aspects into America quite wisely, origionally they only intended property owning men of a certian class to hold any power at all. They greatly feared mob rule and that what happened to Athens would happen also to us. So our countrys design was more wisely based more on the Roman republican model that lasted 500 years before turning into an empire that lasted another 500, than the failed democracy of the greeks that barely made it to 200 years if that, as it was frequently intersected with periods of chaos and tyranny.
The greek democracy btw also never allowed everyone to participate or equal access to power or so called "universal" freedoms, only the male citizens of a certian age in Athens had any responsibility or privilege that gets close and in fact were forced to participate as most positions or duties in government were decided by the drawing of lots. To do otherwise was to be branded quite literally an "idiot" and face ostracation or worse ; additionally all women and forigen males not born to a known family of both parents holding athenian blood; had no say whatsoever.
Utopian ideals don't hold up to logic. Patriarchy works becuase it indeed works in practice as well as theory.
Where as feminisim, just like comunisim before it, threatens the moral basis of our democratic society in a way that will lead to the fall not only of our country but of western cizilization as a whole.