We try to approach social problems with strategies and legislation that address the problems as they come to a head. But the major problems we face in America, I believe, begin in the family. This is no new idea or great insight, but it seems more than ever true as families have to deal with divorce, absent parents, grandparents raising their grandchildren, poverty, all kinds of blended families, abuse, mental illness and addiction. America is not particularly kind to its children.
Some problems emerge from within the family. Some problems result from external forces on the family. How to attempt to fix this problem is a difficult problem. But clearly a country that experiences so much violence, so much addiction, such an obscene inequity in wealth and material goods and faltering legislation to help families, is a country failing.
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