Family Values
The 1950's, perhaps, were no better stereotypically defined then by the show "Leave it to Beaver." The life and times of Ward and June Cleaver, two kids, a housewife, a hard working middle class man, and the house in the suburbs. Time to get back to reality, and to the year 2000. Our notion of family values has changed a lot since the time of the 1950's, for better and for worse. Things that were inconceivable just years ago are now a reality. You have to look at the rolls of parents and children in a system of changing relationships and values to see just how far we have come, and where we need to go in the next millennium. Today almost every family in America is a two-income household. The life of "June Cleaver" is not completely gone but it is dramatically different then it was 40 years ago. Today women face the issues of balancing career, family, and other various household duties. The practicality of staying home to raise the kids isn't what it once was, and this in turn has brought a dramatic change in the roll of the mother and wife. Is this a bad thing? Certainly not, recent numbers are showing that it is possible for a woman to have a self-fulfilling career and maintain her family life. A thought, that was almost once i
nconceivable to many Americans just some 30 or 40 years ago. Kids like Wally and the Bev certainly no longer exist in a modern sense. According to recent surveys, by the time they reach twelve, the average child has witnessed more then 10,000 deaths on television. Recent events at Columbine High School, and just recently in the Michigan Grade School, have lead people to call for more gun laws. Maybe the focus should be on the families. It goes to show even the most innocent members of society, the children, are slowly losing their innocence. Would Dillon Klebold be making homemade explosives in the basement and garage of our own houses growing up? Probably not. Ever increasing amounts of children are growing up where the value systems just aren't in place to know any better or to comprehend their own actions. Things are looking up for family values at the same time. Just this March voters in California defined marriage as legally between a man and a woman, ensuring the institution of marriage will have as much meaning for us and our children as it did to our grandparents. More and more parents are turning off South Park and taking their children to the library. Even extramarital affairs are down according to a Washington Post 'Pop' su
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