According to the director, why did Ford decide that families were dangerous?

According to the director, Ford determined that families were dangerous because they had fathers, who made people miserable, and mothers, who brought with them psychological "perversions" that ranged from sadism to being sexually faithful to one person. Further, Ford found that other kinship relationships, such as those between siblings and with aunts and uncles, led to insanity and suicide. As the director put it:

Our Ford-or Our Freud, as, for some inscrutable reason, he chose to call himself whenever he spoke of psychological matters-Our Freud had been the first to reveal the appalling dangers of family life. The world was full of fathers-was therefore full of misery; full of mothers-therefore of every kind of perversion from sadism to chastity; full of brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts-full of madness and suicide.

The director also provides his own take on families: they are dangerous because they cause people to live in crowded, too close quarters, lacking air and space. Family homes are "under sterilized," which spreads germs and disease. On a psychological level, the director believes that families are too emotional and breed relationships that are too close, especially with the mother getting overly involved with her children. The director says:

What suffocating intimacies, what dangerous, insane, obscene relationships between the members of the family group!