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Originally posted by KeyserSoze
What happened to family values and morals in this country??
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Pessimists argue that the family is collapsing; optimists counter that it is merely diversifying. Too often, both camps begin with an ahistorical, static notion of what "the" family was like before the contemporary period. Thus we have one set of best sellers urging us to reaffirm traditional family values in an era of "family collapse" and another promising to set us free from traditional family traps if we can only turn off "old tapes" and break out of old ruts. . . . The actual complexity of our history—even of our own personal experience—gets buried under the weight of an idealized image.
Families have always been in flux and often in crisis; they have never lived up to nostalgic notions about "the way things used to be."
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http://www.mcwilliams.com/books/aint/404.htm
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Originally posted by illesturban
Lets face it, the term family values has become somewhat skewed in the current society we live in.
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I have yet to find a clear definition of the term. It appears to be nothing more than a vague buzzword to which one attaches whatever specific meaning fits for them.