Decline_of_the_Family

Decline of the Family DECLINE OF THE FAMILY Within the past ten years, the focus of American families has become unpleasantly clear. Divorce, teenage pregnancy, violence, suicide, and addiction are all plaguing our families today. Conservatives, Liberals, and Feminists all have their views on why the breakdown of the families is occurring. The conservatives believe that the lack of religious beliefs and practices have led to the moral disintegration of this generation. Daytime television glorifying unwed motherhood, further obscuring right from wrong. With traditions rapidly diminishing and society's view on moral misfortitude eroding. Many conservatives feel that welfare actually contributes to the breakup of marriages. By making fatherless families a viable option to many. With the lack of social stigma in divorce and the lack of personal commitment in marriage, all factors in the general feeling today of short term instant gratification. Society puts a very high emphasis on obtaining one's personal desires over all else, including the children's sake. There seems to be a strong connection between one parent families and the rise in health and social problems in children. The time parents are available for supervision and interaction, has dropped children, family, poverty, families, time, should, being, social, one, liberals, believe, parents, material, housing, feminist, conservatives, child, care, view, support, society, parent, must, moral, lack, government, divorce, community, both, become, because, years, wrong, working, women, without, while, welfare, way, views, very, unsafe, two, today, through, themselves, shape, school, rise, right