that improve their own lives and the lives of their families. However, our wants are never quite satisfied because “in the place of old wants, satisfied by the wants of the country, we find new wants, requiring for their satisfaction” (Marx and Engels, 17). One of these persistent “wants” present in society is the desire for money; even Jesus saw that the “idolizing of money had killed the nobility of the human heart” (Kuyper, 31). Not only did greed and the desire for materialistic wealth corrupt the life of the proletariat in Europe, but it impacted the lives of their family members as well. Both Marx, Engels, and Kuyper recognized the importance of family in their writings and how, the experience of one individual impacts others. It is when
