If you manage to remain married your odds of welfare are further reduced. A lot life's outcomes depend upon personal decisions. A lot depends on creating stable and nurturing families. Social statistics will reflect this decline. However, it is not the consequence of either wise or foolish economic policy.
Governments are important, but sometimes social problems require changes in hearts and minds.
The Promise Keepers is a voluntary association like the ones de Tocqueville so marveled at. It is a revival movement intent on helping men ask forgiveness for ignoring their family responsibilities, for neglecting to nurture their children, for expecting wives to serve them when it is they who should serve their wives, and for failing to achieve racial reconciliation. The movement aims at changing society one soul at a time. If formal political structures are the skeleton of the body politic, associations like the Promise Keepers are the sinews and ligaments keeping that body together. The crippling cynicism the group has endured from the media is one measure of the need for such associations.