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Old 10-14-2007, 05:15 AM
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Default Re: Are Ethics and Morality Dead in American Society?

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Originally Posted by winston53660 View Post
All very valid points. On the wonderful seesaw it is very difficult is not impossible to keep these things in balance especially when the fulcrum itself is on a seesaw.
But for people who, only recently, have grown up as "latchkey kids" or just had parent(s) who were more concerned with their sales goals than teaching kids right from wrong, that fulcrum ain't nowhere near the middle...

The second the nuclear family became ONE way to raise well-adjusted children instead of THEE way to raise well-adjusted children, ethics and morality gave way...
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