[goldstategop]

We can't expect a value-free society to last. As Kelly Hollowell points out, we pay the price for raising our children in a moral vacuum: in courtrooms, jailhouses and rehab programs. Despite what the secular media and liberals/libertarians are claiming, we're in deep trouble. Without fundamental values to tie us all together, America will never be the great nation she rightly deserves to be. Its time to get back to the things that truly matter and elevate the culture - beginning with a renewed respect for marriage, family and the character of our children.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[steenkeenbadges]

Just look at Sweden to see where this is going. Not pretty.

[Sir Gawain]

Well that was some light reading. Nothing more than a few paragraphs of vague generalizations.

[expatguy]

Can we reverse the moral decline that is destroying our nation?

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[Mach9]

"Addressing the concerns of these mothers, a friend of mine, Rebecca Hagelin, wrote a book called It speaks specifically of a culture "gone mad" . . ."

What's the name of the book?

[TAdams8591]

Agreed. Good artilce.

[John Lenin]

The shallowest of shallow thinkers have no clue what is being created out there. I pity the upcoming generation and what they are sowing for themselves. It will become self evident in due time.

[little jeremiah]

ping to self for later pingout.

[weatherwax]

whilst I have no disagreement with the general message of this article, nor I suspect of the book referred to, I disagree strongly that a secularist society is to blame. It isn't the lack of Christian values that has caused the downhill spiral, but the lack of any values. You dont have to espouse religion to form decent principles and values. You simply have to understand what makes for a moral life for humans, and it has to be in line with what humans are and how they live.
A course in Objectivist philosophy and Rands work from age 5 upwards, in every school in the land, would reverse this trend in less than 15 years.

[Grut]

Without fundamental values to tie us all together, America will never be the great nation she rightly deserves to be.

I agree we need "fundamental values", but Hollowell's case for making Uptight Christianity the official policy is nothing but Mullah-ism.

[Hardastarboard]

home invasion, rape and murder – all to pay for the next fix

Wow, I learned something today. Rape can yield the cash to buy me drugs. I'll have to try that sometime. //Sarcasm

[madprof98]

I certainly agree with the viewpoint here, but I think the case for it is weak unless and until some real study is done on the issue. Rebecca Hagelin's book, Home Invasion, was a terrible waste of money. Everything of substance in it could have been compressed into a short article in a ladies' magazine.

Here and there, writers have actually provided some documentation about the effects of the "coarsening of the culture." But the majority (the folks who have themselves been "coarsened") are willfully oblivious of what is happening to them--and, more importantly, to their kids.