More individual families meant more toasters, radios, TV sets, cars, and homes to be sold. The hearth has been supplanted by the Television set. Telling the truth has become a game show. The permeation of the landscape with sales schemes further erodes people's trust and sincerity. This severity of this issue of children being lied to constantly is impossible to overstate.
Children know instantly when an adult is lying.
This is something a lot of people forget when they grow up and start lying to themselves, and join in the complicity. And then adults wonder at the aberrations of youth. Religious experience is cheapened with television, at least with those religions crass enough to resort to it. It destroys respect, or any sense of social loyalty, being told 'drugs are bad', then seeing their parents chain smoke cigarettes and guzzle booze, seeing the rampant hypocrisy in grown-up politics, and in television's canned laughter, predictable plot lines, and insistent, intrusive commercials. New Families have arisen spontaneously.