At Commentary, columnist Peter Wehner writes about “The President’s Marriage Agenda for the Forgotten Sixty Percent,” the report we released in our co-published journal State of Our Unions last month:
In 2000, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan was asked to identify the biggest change he had seen in his 40-year political career. Moynihan, a man of unusual sagacity, experience, and perspective, responded this way: “The biggest change, in my judgment, is that the family structure has come apart all over the North Atlantic world.” This change has occurred in “an historical instant,” Moynihan said. “Something that was not imaginable 40 years ago has happened.”
I thought about Senator Moynihan’s observation after reading “The President’s Marriage Agenda for the Forgotten Sixty Percent,” which is the centerpiece of the latest State of Our Unions report. This study focused on the nearly 60 percent of Americans who have completed high school but do not have a four-year college degree. more
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What’s also amazing about this social change is that it happened after we had weakened the extended family and community structures in general.
And that now we have not much else to replace it with and rely on.
Cuz Diane, it’s all part of the same thing- the progressive thinning of kin and family ties.
Cuz Diane, it’s all part of the same thing- the progressive thinning of kin and family ties. In my opinon a response partly to American individual values but also the the economic pressures since the industrial revolution.