Dear Gracie,
You are correct as usual. The family unit of today is just not what it was in our day. And so we have youth who grew up with no good parental examples to follow, who seem to be totally lacking in a proper sense of values. Can we blame them for acting the way they do?
I place a good part of the blame for this situation on poorly conceived social welfare programs which try to the "daddy" in poor families and thus enable the real daddies to abdicate their parental responsibilities. You cannot replace a loving parent-child relationship with a welfare check and expect good results.
And now we pay the price.
Sad indeed.
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