Religion and family are never eliminated, just replaced.

ATTACK AND DISCREDIT TRADITIONAL RELIGION AND REPLACE WITH HUMAN INVENTIONS

GANGS AND POLITICAL EXTREMISTS ARE THE NEW FAMILY

The attacks on religions that believe in a creator have been ongoing since the 1960's. The psychiatric establishment has even considered religious belief a form of maladjustment, all the while proclaiming many deviant behaviors as normal. 

The belief in a creator of some kind is a point of view that is often connected to those who have had life experiences of building, creating and making complicated things work. It is hard for those with practical knowledge to believe that the world, the universe, the human body and brain, and reproduction are the result of a series of accidental events or processes. 

Only those who deal with intangible things their entire life can accept this flawed premises of a complicated creation without a creator. They often look down on those who work with their hands to build and create things as being inferior to their elevated view of the world.

Humans have certain programmed traits and behaviors, one is the need to look to something stronger or superior to themselves. When the belief in this is rejected it is often replaced by belief in the State or a cause. The phrase the "government has do something" is a perfect example. Usually what people want them to do is something reinforced by their cause which is often another form of religious belief. This could be to "Save the Planet", "Social Justice", "economic Justice"," save the whales"or a host of other causes that can take on a religious fervor. Is it their reason for existence? Their purpose in their lives?

While traditional religion often emphasized family and children and social stability with the simple admonition , "to do onto others as you would have them do unto you" Religion was a way for humans to better understand their purpose in life and to give them hope and endurance when things are bleak. These new or often old religions usually have the injunction to "make them all do what we believe to be best".  It usually requires force of some kind administered by the collective state.

Humans also have a strong bond with family, people who have the same parents, who grew into adulthood together, who became allies in their life together.  The family has also been under attack for decades. It is no longer looked at as a place of safety and security but a burden to be eliminated. It is never eliminated, but just replaced by a criminal gang, the mafia, the cartel or some other counterfeit form of family. Some other organization that provides a substitute for family. The military, Law enforcement, the LBGQ groups, political parties, and unions, who often refer to each other as brothers or comrades. They are in effect some form of a family substitute. 

As long as we keep looking in the human invented weeds for solutions to problems, that may not even be problems, we will continue on a path of chaos, instability and insecurity.