It was a look at Middle America, at the sons and daughters of people similar to the employees of most businesses. 48 percent place high importance on self-centered values. 65 percent spend no time doing volunteer work to help other people. Often these are negative, and everyone suffers. Mothers report feeling best when they were anywhere other than home.
Teenagers report being bored at home, feeling that they are marking time.
Each family member lives in a separate, often fast-paced and highly charged emotional world. Statistics on conditions below the poverty line are even more alarming, of course. Those conditions cry out for more involvement by business leaders as well, but they cannot be acted on directly by corporate policy.