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đŸ’¯. We are a society untethered… not beholden to family, religious institutions, or community. In times past, these institutions created guardrails of shared values, and people were shamed or shunned by their immediate families or the greater community if they did not follow the rules, written and unwritten. Our current culture celebrates every extreme expression of untethered individualism, and the collective has suffered. In addition, we have devalued the role of young males, who are no longer needed to provide, and who cannot provide even if they wanted to. It has become prohibitively expensive to start a family or buy a home, so these aspirational hopes have also gone by the wayside for the many. The only way back to some sort of sanity is the promotion of policies that build families. Right now there are none.

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