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Thread #109224 Message #2281172
Posted By: Little Hawk
06-Mar-08 - 09:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: BushClintonBushClinton
Subject: RE: BS: BushClintonBushClinton
Yes, that's correct, 6. The family has fragmented badly. I find, though, that that's part of the family-dominated picture. What I mean is, fragmented families produce an ever more fragmented society.
Now what you see happening in the upper echelons of society, the very monied people at the top, is not those fragmented families (in most cases). The fragmentation is occuring more at the lower economic end, specially among the poverty-stricken. This is only increasing the relative empowerment of the rich, and decreasing the cohesiveness of the rest of the people in comparison.
So I think we actually agree on this matter. A strong, healthy society is one where the family unit remains strong and stable at all levels of society. We aren't seeing that.