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Applied Nostalgia

es only pleasure, loyalty to an institution will be returned, and elected leaders arebenevolent and wise(Paul 63) are to unbearable to be placed on the weak shoulders oftheir children. Thus, they shield this information from the children. Armed with reams of statistics, especially in the drop the number of nuclear familyhomes in the United States (Two 1), they present a fair case for the reversal to theparenting style of the aging baby boomer population. An incomplete list of their claimedills includes single parent households, an overly demanding work environment, influx ofundesirable media, and the feminist movement. Fatherlessness, as David Blackhord president of Institute for American valuespoints out, is the most harmful demographic trend of our generation...and the leadingcause of declining child well-being in our society. It is also the engine driving our mosturgent social problems, from crime, to adolescent pregnancy, to sexual abuse, to domesticviolence against women. The evidence is now strong that the absence of fathers from thelives of children is one of the most important causes [of the above problems] (UCSF 1) In one augmenting study performed by the University of California at SanFrancisco on Californias family makeup reported that twenty percent of children underage eighteen are currently raised by a single adult. Accusative fingers of these nostalgic parents turn like an vengeful hinged gate fromfamily structure to the work environment, citing statistics on the economic difficulties thatmodern employers cause, or on personal obsessions with work that deters from theinfinitely more important job at home. With parents trapped in consuming jobs, they leavetheir kids to fend for themselves (West 2). The type of work and work environment changed in the last few decades with theadvent of new technologies and pressure on employers to cut costs. According to theparents and researchers who advocate a reversal to the past, the mo...

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