Family Unity and Moral ValuesThe increase in the number of divorces and the decrease in the number ofmarriages does not reflect a breakdown of the family unit in the United Statesand the decay of moral values. “I don’t think divorce is as big of problem aspoliticians make it out to be.
Yes, many couples get divorced, but theirchildren can still have stability and grow up to be good people. ” (Price) Thebreakdown of the family unit in the United States and the decay of moral valuesare due to the change of society and environment. These days, when manyfamilies are at home together, they often remain apart. There are no bondageand communication in families. Television and technology has corrupted theminds of children in America.
Less religious influence, persistent underclassunemployment and alternative lifestyles have contributed in the downfall offamilies and moral values. The nation and state have done little or nothing toprovide help rebuild families and values. Family value has reference to what we believe about the family. It’sconcerned with quality of living and how you define quality of living. Itbasically gets down to what you think is the most important, in other words whatyou value.
“Family values is nice when you’ve got Ward and June and Wally andBeaver. Unfortunately, the world has changed quite a bit from the 1950s to 1996. Things have just changed so rapidly and so quick” (Anderson) The honesty,setting examples with your morals and actions, and bringing up the people to beresponsible. Responsible for themselves, responsible for ecology, responsiblefor humanity qualities have been neglect in the upbringing of children today.
Many people believe that true family values are the stepping stones forfamilies to achieve growth of love. They follow seven principles. 1. Make a commitment to your family and hometown. 2.
Live for the greater whole. 3. Learn true love in the school of the family. 4. Dedicate your own family to the global family of humankind.
5. Strive daily to put the spiritual above the physical. 6. Align with heaven to share blessings on earth.
7. Be sexually pure to create the true culture. (Bales)But every family has its own values and few of them are exactly alike. Thevariations are endless, and there is no single ideal standard that all familiescan or should exist. Because society has changed, moral has changed and peoplecan not follow the morals of the past. Both parents assisting in the household income is new in today’s societycompared to the past.
Where the only the man of the house worked and the womenwould stay home and take care of the children. Today’s society require afamily to have two income to survive, one income does not provide a stable lifestyle anymore. The issue of homosexuality and diversity have surfaced, andmoral values have changed. Families are lost in the dream world of their TV sets and video games. Children are learning values and issues from TV and not from their own parents.
The children do not learn how to communicate with their parents, and will notlearn to communicate with their mate later in life. Their marriage will end upin divorce and their children will follow the same cycle as they did. The evolving “information superhighway” will make it even easier forindividuals to lose themselves in non-real worlds at the expense of their veryreal families. People should value their families higher than their fantasies. “If parents could be adult about it by cooperating in their childraising, speaking well of each other, and supporting each others’ decisionswhetherboth parents are in the home or not, then less stress would be put onthe innocent parties, who are often the parents as well as the children. Willbenefit the children as well as themselves But that’s not the kind of world welive in, and we point fingers and waste time, money and energy trying to fixblame.
” (Price)Base on the book “The Case Against Divorce” by Diane Medved an importantissue was raised. The issue of religion in today’s society. People are lessreligious and the amount of time spent in church has declined in past years. This tells us the people are not learning knowledge and wisdom from the churchbut from somewhere else. That people do not believe that the true solutions toget the family in the right track are spiritual and moral. “Would you rather be surrounded by a million people who were very religious, orwould you rather be surrounded by a million people who were not very religious?I think we would rather be surrounded by those who are religious, because wewould feel more safe” (Carter)”I think religion has wonderful things to offer.
It makes you stop and thinkabout whether what we are doing is right or wrong, as opposed to secular law,which makes you wonder whether what you are doing is going to get you arrestedor not. ” (Carter)”To Jews, the point of your existence on Earth is to help improve the world. This creation is unfinished, a team effort between humans and God. We have thebasic raw matter, and we are given free will, and our job is to make this placebeautiful. ” (Carter)Politicians love to rhapsodize about the virtues of traditional families,religious principles and personal integrity. Yet the truth is these high-minded,abstract ideals are conspicuously missing in may of their personal lives.
It iscommon wisdom now among both parties that forcing mothers off welfare into thejob market will counter the breakdown of the inner-city family by instilling thework ethic and responsibility. But what will this do for family values if thereis no welfare for food and no available work for the uneducated and theuntrained?”Our nation, states and communities should spend more of their time making iteasier and more attractive for people to connect on a personal, face-to-facelevel and for families to re-learn the pleasures of sharing productiveactivities rather than helping lock us each into a technological cocoon. “(Medved)The increase in the number of divorces and the decrease in the number ofmarriages does not reflect a breakdown of the family unit in the United Statesand the decay of moral values. “I don’t think divorce is as big of problem aspoliticians make it out to be. Yes, many couples get divorced, but theirchildren can still have stability and grow up to be good people.
” (Price) Thebreakdown of the family unit in the United States and the decay of moral valuesare due to the change of society and environment. These days, when manyfamilies are at home together, they often remain apart. There are no bondageand communication in families. Television and technology has corrupted theminds of children in America. Less religious influence, persistent underclassunemployment and alternative lifestyles have contributed in the downfall offamilies and moral values.
The nation and state have done little or nothing toprovide help rebuild families and values. The only solution is to connect,communicate and establish bondage in the family. Try to spend more time andenergy with families will greatly improve family unity and moral values. Social Issues
