A Nation In Distress

A Nation In Distress

Friday, September 9, 2011

From Family Collapse To America's Decline: The Educational, Economic And Social Costs Of Family Fragmentation

From The Heritage Foundation:

Family, Culture & Community






From Family Collapse to America’s Decline: The Educational, Economic, and Social Costs of Family Fragmentation



by Mitch Pearlstein



Rowman & Littlefield



September 08, 2011







Very high rates of family fragmentation in the United States are subtracting from what very large numbers of students are learning in school and forever holding them back in many other ways. This in turn is damaging the country economically by making us less primed for innovation while also making millions of Americans less competitive in an increasingly demanding worldwide marketplace. All of which is leading to deepening class divisions in a nation which has never viewed itself or operated in such splintered ways. What can be done to reverse these severely destructive trends, starting with reducing the enormous number of children forced to grow up with only one parent living under the same roof? What educational reforms are most likely to help under such demanding circumstances?





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