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Originally Posted by ElDiabloJoe
Oh Geez, that's easy. You're not gonna like the answer though:
1. Two-parent homes for raising children;
2. A stay-at home parent;
3. Put away "participation trophies" and teach kids that heartbreak and losing are life lessons and doing so gracefully is important;
4. Return to discipline. Kids are your responsibility to society, NOT your new cuddly best friend for you to pamper and indulge;
5. Return to a shared moral code. In the past, it was Christianity and regular church attendance;
6. Return to community norms. No more, "but it's their culture to be rude" excuses. Abide by community standards or face social ostracism;
7. A return to accountability and personal responsibility for one's actions and behaviors.
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With respect to point #2 ) In the 1960s and prior years, couples had large numbers of children because infant mortality was high - many children did not make it to adulthood. Today medical science has changed and many couples have one or two children. With fewer children to supervise and cook for, the woman has more time to work and have a useful career. She is not "barefoot and pregnant" as often due to improved medical science.
........In the 1960s and prior years, the US middle class was one of the strongest in the world. Today the US middle class is one of the weakest in the 1st world. Today the US has the 1st world's greatest wealth disparity between rich and
poor with little or no middle class. That causes the need for BOTH parents to work. So, today couples do NOT have the luxury of a "stay-at-home parent". They wish that they did.
........In the 1960s and prior years, labor unions were strong and insured that workers got FAIR wages for their work plus hospitalization and other benefits. Today labor unions are practically nonexistent, which means that BOTH parents MUST work in any family in the bottom 80% of US society.
........In about the 1980s, outsourcing to 1st the US South, then Mexico, and now today to China - has caused a
further decrease in worker's wages, further wealth disparity, further destruction of the middle class, and further tearing of the US social fabric - which has resulted in increased suicides, increased drug addiction, increased crime, increased proliferation of man-killing long guns and pistols, and finally increased MASS MURDERS.