Hmm. First of all, my article is certainly incomplete. That's why I write so many articles, because it's impossible to say everything in just one short article.
I think I make a similar point to the one you're making here in "Some Basics of Cynical Sociology" (link below). It's a question of a hidden, more animalistic social order beneath the more conventional one we flatter ourselves for having. There are humanized dominance hierarchies, the most basic of which is indeed the human family. In society, some families have more power and a higher status than others. Just as dominant animals signal their dominance with certain cues, such as by baring their fangs, powerful people signal theirs with acts of conspicuous consumption.
And of course, concentrated power is liable to corrupt human dominators more than it does in the animal kingdom, because our autonomy opens up new possibilities of evil and cruelty.
This kind of sociobiological explanation may amount to a conspiracy or a taboo, but I'm not sure it's a fraud. There are winners and losers here, sure, but the question would be whether the dominators attain their status mainly by deception. I think I've put my finger here on a capitalistic deception, so that would be a fraud.
But what's the fraud that sustains the family unit? Children do need to rely on adults because they're objectively helpless on their own. Unlike in other species, we're born with brains too big for our body so we're not independent and have to be raised to become self-sustaining. That's what families are for.
