The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as a ...vital social role for men. At stake is nothing less than the success of the American experiment. For unless we reverse the trend of fatherlessness, no other set of accomplishments--not economic growth or prison construction or welfare reform or better schools--will succeed in arresting the decline of child well-being and the spread of male violence. To tolerate the trend of fatherlessness is to accept the inevitability of continued social recession.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In brief, we have no explicit family policy but instead have a haphazard patchwork of institutions and programs designed mostly un...der crisis conditions, whether the crisis is national in scope (such as a recession ) or personal (such as a break-up of a particular family).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial econom...ic effects.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »