The egg is small, stationary, right under our noses, susceptible to our solution. Social problems are as illusive as a wild, erratic chicken. We try to deal with them with more money, more police, more jails, more public education and more often than not we seem to make them worse. Eventually we bankrupt ourselves and exhaust our well-intentioned idea. We have to reach the egg .
Solutions lie in the home.
The home-egg must be valued, prioritized, strengthened so that it produces solutions rather than problems, contributors rather than abusers, builders rather than wreckers. Values and Families Turning from the examination of a connection between negatives to a connection between positives . . . Of course, again, both. Strong families are based on and built on values of commitment, fidelity, dependability, honesty, loyalty, discipline, courage, love, self-reliance, respect, unselfishness, justice and mercy. And strong families also become the stewards, the safeguards, the preservers, and the bequeathers of those values.