th things in different situations. I feel that I could tell my parents anything whether good or bad and they might get mad, but they always take the time to talk about it and show me how to deal with the problem. I have a relationship that I feel none of my friends have with their parents. Getting back to the point of following your parents as role models, affecting how you turn out, I believe this is very true. For example, everything my parents have given me I hope to be able to give my children in the future and more if possible. I hope to have a similar relationship with my children and hope my children appreciate it as much as I do. Perhaps equally important,” Haveman (1995) observes along the same lines, “private standards have also changed for the worse. Family values, judgments about individual responsibility, perceptions of appropriate personal behavior and appearance and expectations of the good will of neighbors have all eroded” (p. 147). As has already been suggested, “some may find it is difficult to accept the view that social problems such as these are a consequence of overpopulation where the United States is concerned that the fertility rates of Americans has declined to the point where as much as one-third of the relatively modest population increase this country has been experiencing annually is believed to be the result of increase immigration” (Morgenthau, 1994 p. 167). Even though overall population increases in this country have been modest a very large proportion of births happen to a relatively small part of the US population--the inner-city poor. Fertility rates among this population section are approaching Third-World proportions, not because the poor necessarily have large families, although in some instances they do, but the proportion of women electing to have even one or two children is far higher among this group than among the more prosperous. Interview with Social ...
