Please, allow me...
Having children has become very expensive, being that in most families, both parents are required to work just to have enough for everyone, the marriage suffers, the children suffer, and on and on.
When both people work, each of them spend more time awake, around other people than with their partner. When a man, or woman, does not want to go home to their TV dinner and messy house, they tend to go somewhere else and end up spending yet more time with other people.
Marriage becomes less important under these circumstances. More and more people cannot afford to live on their own, more people are living with their parents for longer lengths of time because of their economic situation. None of these things encourage marriage, nor having children.
Education has become so expensive that in order to do so, you must go deep into debt. Getting married while already starting out in the negative then negates getting a house, to even start a family. As well, education is not what it used to be, and considering the job market is so bad for good paying jobs, many people opt to go straight into the job market so they are able to move out of their parents house.
Staying married in a marriage just for the children's sake no longer applies when you are not giving your children the love and attention they require. Far easier to divorce someone if you do not love them, or do not have a successful relationship with them than to stay in a marriage only for the children's sake. It's also a proven fact, that when people stay in a marriage they are not happy in, that the children suffer and as well, get the wrong impression of what it means to be married. Which gave rise to the increase in bad marriages, and divorce.
Going the extra mile for your employer only makes the people who own stock in the company more money. More money in the hands of fewer people leads to economic inequality, which gives rise to social issues, protesting, people doing without, stagnant economy and on and on. So working harder for a corporation gets you nowhere. And in this day and age as companies rise and fall ever faster, there is no guarantee of any pension or profit sharing being left when you do retire. Social Security is a joke. Better to start a business and work hard for yourself than being a cog in a corporation that doesn't care and isn't morally responsible. Blame corporations for the current attitude for work ethic in this country. People need a good solid reason to put forth extra effort, and to stay with a company. Treat your employees good and they in turn will do the same.
Being charitable when you cannot afford to keep your own house in order? Or when charities spend 90% or more on their own needs before any of that money makes it to the people who truly need it? Being charitable has only exposed reasons why you shouldn't be. Better to save that money so that you can apply it to your children's education as that will help the world far more than giving money to a charitable organization.
I have a hard time being a patriot when we send men, and women off to fight wars in countries we have no business being involved in. These people who serve our country deserve to be treated far better than they are, and when they do come back it's our responsibility to make sure that all they experienced and the handicaps that experience has caused should be resolved in the very best way possible. It's hard to be a patriot when our government is rife with corruption, when we are lied to, when unreasonable laws are passed because a Prison Guard Lobbyist group has applied enough pressure to pass stricter laws for non-violent crimes just so the prison guard unions, and the private prison industry can make more money. Of all the people imprisoned in the entire world, the United States makes up 25% of that number. Meaning, we have in prison, 25% of the entire worlds prison population here in the United States. Something is seriously wrong there. Be a patriot when I do not agree with how our country behaves towards other countries, when our country doesn't take care of our veterans, when our politicians lie, cheat and sell out the American People for their own benefit? I don't think so.
I have had two incidents where I was accosted by police officers for absolutely no reason. I have never been arrested for anything in my life, but I have been detained twice when I was not the person whom they were looking for. Once, having several officers pull guns on me while I was waiting for a hotel shuttle to pick me up. Not only was I not wearing what the suspect was described as wearing, but I obviously was not running away, and had no weapons in my hand. The other time I was crossing the street in a crosswalk, with the green light in my favor, and a cop was making a right hand turn, almost hit me. He hit is siren so I figured he had an emergency call so ran across the street, he squealed into the parking lot, demanding to know why I ran away from him, handcuffed me while he called in my information and then had the audacity to ask me when the last time I was arrested, was. I don't look like a criminal, I have never been arrested, I have never committed any crimes and yet I was being treated as such. How can I have respect for authority when authority has absolutely no respect for me?
There are now more people who die from prescription drugs than from street drugs. They are being shoveled down our throats but Doctors, who get perks for prescribing medication from pharmaceutical companies. I call that substance abuse, and yet this is perfectly legal. It's interesting to note, that during Obama's very first campaign Big Pharma donated over 80 million to the campaigns of those who later voted for Obama Care. Interesting enough, that same bill made it illegal for Medicare to negotiate prices for drugs, which lead to a huge increase in the cost of drugs.
In this day and age considering how easy it is to understand why society is becoming what it is, it's beyond my ability to understand how people can state these things you have in this post, as if not doing those things is what is causing the problems that exist today. You are comparing the 1950s to now? Really? In the 50s, would you ask people to behave as they did in the 1850s? As they did right after the Civil War? It was a different time, women stayed at home and made it warm and welcoming, men couldn't want to go home, children were loved and given the attention they needed. Are you suggesting that women should stay home? Are you suggestion that all those things we call progress, should be countermanded and that we should then go back to the way things were in the 1950s? Are you seriously suggesting this would be a good course of action?
