Do you think the effects of family decline have been great on our children?

Question

Kind of in comparison to how it used to be? Some would argue that it hasn't? What do you think?

Answer 1

I think that family structure has declined a lot - we see a lot more people raised in single parent homes, and you also see that a busy, hectic lifestyle has made parents too busy to interact with their children. Everything is set up to be convenient and quick, at the expense of children's mental and physical health - drive through eateries, dropping kids off at caretakers, working long hours and barely interacting with them.

I think part of the blame is the fact that society is inundated with images of sexuality, drugs and excess through the media. Extramarital affairs and divorce are something that are almost normal now, as opposed to something shocking a few generations ago. We're bombarded with images of sexuality, of beautiful women and handsome men, of people having active s*x lives, of how freeing being single is. Marriage is disintegrating because while a hundred years ago a man married to his woman wouldn't even know what other women looked like nude, now every other movie and magazine shows dozens of nude and half nude women, which sparks nothing but desire for the female form of others. Also, the glamorization of s*x, drugs and excess is dragging children into that underworld too - kids that are eleven or twelve years old are experimenting with s*x now.