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. Humans are not good or bad, and will strive toward organismic health in a nurturing climate. Humanistic therapy has a crucial opportunity to lead our troubled culture back to its own healthy path. More than any other therapy, Humanistic-Existential therapy models democracy. It imposes upon the client least of all.