Our children can reach out to the cosmos, but we do not know how to nurture each other. All behavior is chosen. Therefore, one is responsible for all one does. A hefty percentage of our children are growing up de-humanized. In a sociological framework, arguments are made that the family unit as an American bulwark is in tatters.
Broken homes breed broken hearts, and broken hearts have a diminished capacity to love others.
We Never Were. Her thesis is that Life With Father and The Brady Bunch and other pop cultural icons were largely myths, and that it is more likely that drugs, alienation, violence, disloyalty, and crime contribute to the breakup of a family, rather than the other way around. Humanism as a psychology can only flourish in a culture that values humanism as a philosophy. Humans come packaged with a natural drive toward health. As Carl Rogers repeatedly expressed, a plant is neither good nor bad but rather grows to its healthy maturity given a nurturing environment of water, sun, and soil.