This post will offend many.

The feminine imperative is intricately interwoven into a vast majority of social conventions in today's society.  Many of these are discussed in Rollos works, and the basic premise is that the feminine will leverage these social conventions to their benefit to force compliance, whether through shame, blackmailing, or use of the law.  Socially accepted acculturations will always outweigh sound logic and reason when everyone it speaks to is erratically driven by emotion.

'Family first' is THE most powerful feminine social convention that exists, and many redpill men fail to accept this.  One may be game-aware and be efficient in navigating and discrediting the fallacy of other feminized social conventions, but many will tuck their cocks inbetween their legs and tickle their own buttholes (if well endowed)  when it comes to questioning the family unit.  Nearly every other feminized social convention can bottleneck and be traced to the endgame of family.  This is the trump card when all other efforts to control and manipulate a man have failed. Think of the chiillllldrennnn.

Many-o-men burned by divorce or seen others get zeroed out by it will be the first to jump and say that the family courts are the devil-incarnate when it comes to the Feminine Imperative, and they'd be right!  Yet, some of those very men will still praise the importance of putting family first, whether they got burned by the system or not.  This is an ego investment/preservation strategy a man will use to still hamster to himself that his Blue Pill values of family actually add value to his masculinity.  This is bullshit.  That very thing you believe is so important will be the first thing to plow your asshole like an Iowa field while sprinkling your values out in the process in the form of discount fertilizer for the next dumbasses to feed on, grow, and make the same mistake as you.

You should only use your family for your benefit until you can cut yourself off from them and live by your own values, and do things of your own volition without deferring to the family unit as some sort of religion.  If you need to rely on family (money, rent, etc) once you've matured and made a life for yourself, you are codependent and not at your best as a man.  Machiavellianism isn't prohibited from use on family.  This ain't caveman times.  You don't need to slave your life away for your genetic lineage to survive when humans are at the top of the food chain.  If you really cared about such lineage, you would literally impregnate every woman you possibly could rather than wallowing around in a marriage or LTR and being a 'good man' attempting to raise your kid (s) by your values, which if it's redpill, will be met with opposition from every corner of 'The Village.'  Men are polygamous.  That is your sexual strategy to ensure genetic continuity, not sacrificing everything for one fuck-badge.

At this point, you don't value your genetic lineage and it's survival, you value the feminine imperative and it's cultural brainwashing strategy on how it wants you to raise children in a world of feminine primary, capitalism, and hatred of masculinity.

'Family first' is a Blue Pill value, like it or not.