Those attitudes, paired with easy access to weapons of death, create a dangerous society. We are on the brink of losing our humanity. Children are parented neither to respect each other nor the sanctity of human life. William Glasser applauds the 20th century as the century of technological triumph and deplores it as the century of social flat-lining. 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.