But the medicine we're using isn't working. We're treating the symptoms. We're taking aspirin. Social Problems Common sense as well as irrefutable statistics tell us of the connections between the breakup of marriages and breakdown of families and the savage increase in our nation's social problems. How our newest, largest institutions are destroying the oldest, smallest institution of family.
Social problems are the symptoms, broken families are the illness.
Eroding values and false paradigms are the deficiency in our immune system. The family, and its basic purposes and functions, is being swallowed up, undermined, and rendered irrelevant by our larger institutions. The family is the victim and the larger institutions, whether purposefully or innocently, are the culprits. The public sector, rife with sins of commission and omission, is damaging the family. There is nothing families need more than employment and income.