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THE HOLE IN AMERICAN PROSPERITY.(family problems)(Brief Article)
As wondrous as recent trends have been in areas like the economy and new technologies, there are some places where life has taken a turn for the worse. Family life is clearly one.
Advocates of various liberation movements would have us believe that complaints about family life today stem from nothing more than "Leave It to Beaver" nostalgia or just plain "bigotry."
Rubbish. Tottering piles of hard evidence inform us that our family problems today are real, and that the meltdown of the traditional family is leaving innocent victims scattered all over life's battlefield.
One troubling bit of recent evidence comes from a study in Pediatrics, conducted by five family physicians in Pittsburgh and Illinois. The doctors compared tens of thousands of local pediatric records, stretching from 1979 to 1996, and found evidence of grave increases in "psychosocial problems" among children 4-15.
Over those two decades, cases of mental retardation in children declined. Thank you, scientists.
But emotional, psychiatric, and behavioral problems among juveniles soared. Thank you, day care, illegitimacy, and divorce. The physicians carefully factored out improved diagnoses and demographic background factors, and specifically linked these new childhood traumas to the last generation's spike in single-parent families (and all that follows from that ...
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