how to overcome the decline of traditional family values in contemporary society?
97100
You can't stop it, everything changes.  Traditional Values will never come back.  People don't move backwards.  There has never been a case in all of history of a group of people renouncing their current values for the actual values of the past.
822764
agree with you as the best times I remember were family orientated. seems as though modern society in having to make a living has taken over
90421
In India - yes, it is fair to expect that. And it will continue to remain that way for some more time to come. "Westernization" is eating into our traditions, but not at a rate fast enough that these values get forgotten in today's scenario. \n\nFor example, in the US way of things, the parents actually want their kids to leave home at some point in life (as I have deciphered based on some questions that have been posted here) so that they learn to take care of themselves at the earliest. But this is not the case in India, where parents go all the way to take care of their children right till they get into their 20s when they can take care of themselves. A lot of their lives revolves around trying to give the best formative years that a child could have. The least these children can do in this case is to reciprocate when their parents are in need. \n\nHowever, that said, the rules are not so valid for women, as it is for men. Women are, and will continute to be considered "others wealth" for quite sometime to come because of the stereotypical image attached with women.
874283
I would compltety agree with you on this. In our quest to have it all, the best job, our children in the best schools, our children in the best clothes, we should belong to the right organizations and groups. Our values have become so much of what others think and see us as, the sucessful and rich one. Well, in the long run our children really only want our love, attention, time and nuturing. And this is what is leading to the children being deliquent, having anger issues. And the parents are absent but giving of material things, working themsevles to death to have the house in the suburbs, with the car in the driveway. And who is enjoying these things they are working so hard to have. The children alone with their friends, left to their own devices, while the wife is having affairs beacuse her husband is to busy working for the almighty dollar giving himself a heart attack to  give her everything. When all they really need are the basics in life to live, alot of love and time together. Life is to short and when you die, i guess everyone will remember you had the best of everything and died trying to get it, and your children resent you becasue they dont even know who you are. Yes it is nice to have very nice things, however, should we kill ourselves in the process, I think not. What is important in my life is the quality of time I spend with my children and the values I instill in them. Be happy and content where you are, I would rather be poor in monatary wealth and rich in love and spirt of family. Howver, most are consumed with what everyone else has, but those who really count (family) are thinking of us. And we are killing ourselves trying to live up to others expectations and desires of what they think we should be. What is the competition all about. Why do we need to impress the neighbors? Who cares, God has given you the life you are to have be blessed, comfortable and confident in where you are. Then he willl increase it when he sees you have learned to be comfortable where you are. And we should feel very blessed those who have family and children this is one of the greatest blessings in the world. We need to slow down and feel the blessing. Thanks for the question. God bless
456823
1. Failure of ethical governance.\n2. Failing educational system.\n3. Declining moral climate.\n4. Economic considerations running people instead of people being the wise stewards of the economic system.\n5. Too much immigration without qualification.  Many now here do not at all believe in freedom of religion or other traditional American values; some even wish to overthrow or disable the nation.  Many of these are also engaged in lives of exploitation of the working populace and crimes.  The crimes run the gamut from violent to scams and frauds.  \n6. Limitless compensation for corporate executives.\n7. Increasing numbers of impoverished and street people, many of whom are not old and disabled; some of these now helping the drug and crime problems to grow further.\n8. Breakdown of the traditional family structure, the mainstay of all enduring nations.\n10. Misplaced priorities everywhere.  More could be said, but these are sufficient to constitute two steps backward for every one forward currently.\n\nOther nations are having much of the same, and it is still better here than most other places; but, we must ask: How much longer can we endure these ills?  Will enough people change to correct them?
957190
What you don't understand is that liberals don't want to take away those values, they actually want to make them possible. Without regulation, workers' rights protection, and a living wage, people do work hard but they CANNOT plan and these days the expected work hours are creeping up to a 10-hour day all over the world. We've lost the 8-hour day we fought so hard for. The purpose of this is to have time to be wtih family, where bonds can be created. If people have to work all the time just to survive, they can't properly raise a family... and then where will people get their family values or their morality? From the TV? If you care about family values, you should support higher wages, lower work hours, benefits, and health care. If people can plan for their future and live a decent life with the jobs they get, there will be more family values, less crime, fewer abortions... as a matter of fact just about all the things that piss off conservatives are best dealt with by taking care of the working class.
1058322
Companionship, love, to have a family, loneliness, doesn't hurt to join incomes either. No one wants to be old & alone, young looking for safe sex, & most of are want to marry our eternal mates & have lovely families. 33 years of marriage & would not change a thing, I love him as more today than ever. Had all our family over this week for Son's new baby & there were 58 of us.\n"We are family" I highly recommend marriage.
19410
It's a cultural shift to the age of information. People become jaded about life and love when they are bombarded with internet porn, unattainable bodies, soft drink ads, and winning free ipods. The ideals of our grandparent generation are gone. I don't think that there is all bad to come of this shift, i believe that we are more aware and informed then ever. We have way more options then the you have to marry girl down the street or the person you parent picked out for economic reasons.
933772
While you are quarreling, the house and shop value is deteriorating.  Ever see old houses falling down because heirs couldn't decide what to do with them!  How's that for preserving a parent's memory.  Have the property appraised and have those who want it give the rest their monetary share.  If some want just land, have the property subdivided.  Then there's the family where some kids are always given more than others.  Those are the ones who want the others to "give" them something instead of sharing the burden.
654604
In the old days, we have more children and stricter rules in the house and family. Children during those days were reminded of the importance of education. When they failed their exams in schools, parents esp. the father would literally whipped them with a cane or gave them other harsh punishment, etc. Teachers in school would give out stricter discipline and harsh punishments as well such as a hard slap across the hands and behind the buttocks with a cane, etc.\nBUT today with lesser children among this generation of parents, due to the high cost of raising a family and providing a higher education, the children of today is lot more spoiled by their parents. And most countries have imposed laws against harsh punishment in both schools and homes against young children. Teachers and parents can go to jail for dishing out any punishments such a simply slap across the face or leaving a few marks on the children's body.\nThus begin the decline of the importance of education and the beginning of new technology such as playstation games, online games, hand phones, etc., which played a more important part in the children's lives. Parents also contributed to this by buying these high-tech gadgets for their spoiled kids. Only a few handful of highly educated families and the motivated ones would drill into their children's heads during their early lives the importance of higher education. And the richer ones could also afford to provide their children with higher education with the ever increasing costs. It all in the end also comes down to proper parenting and in addition, family support, both emotionally and financially.  \nWithout these, the children of today would be 'lost' or taking the wrong path towards nowhere in their lives.
226106
unfortunatly due to society today, we no longer own our children
352861
I agree with you.  Traditional family is just made up.  People always make up things to justify wanting to end or not make happen something.
450409
I don't think that marriage will be so important as it is nowadays, and even nowadays the importance has dwindled down. Less people are eager to get married, and less women want to have children. So, in the next 20-25 years I think that the birth rate will have significantly gone down, and so will the marriage rate. Maybe more dads will be staying home and taking care of the kids, while moms will be the ones bringing home the bread.
75618
It's easy to blame the women, however it is mainly the fault of non-resident or non-caring fathers that boys and girls are raised without a good fatherly role-model. Left to themselves many people will tend to become very self-oriented and even outright selfish in relationships with other people. As a society, we in the western world are rapidly losing the ability to harmoniously live together in longterm family relationships.
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I'd ask myself what I did to make it this way. and what can I do to bring about a change to the current state. u can never blame others for ALL that is wrong with YOUR world. you hafta first take responsibility for your own short comings. Remember when you point the finger of blame at someone, three fingers are pointing back at YOU. \nNEVER EVER pick a bf/gf over family. when u meet someone and marry them you may consider it. until you cross that threshold it shouldn't be a consideration.(unless there's some history of abuse visited upon u by your family.)
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Culturally, the acceptible level of exuberance in children, especially boys, has been lowered. Note that children have not actually changed, and it is not that there is anything medically wrong with them. But many parents now subscribe to values that say that the children (especially boys) should be quieter, less active, cause less trouble, be more like girls. \n\n"Why can't you be more like your sister?" and the fact that he was born male is not acceptible as an answer.  As a result of these skewed cultural and moral values, parents worry out loud that their male child might have ADD or ADHD. Physicians are human and liable to make mistakes just as much as anybody, and they often assume that the parent has the male child's best interests at heart. \n\nSo children are sometimes misdiagnosed with ADD or ADHD because our cultural values have changed subtly with time, making the natural behavior of boys unacceptible, and holding feminine behavior up as the sole standard of excellence. The root causes of this may be manifold, but the two largest ones might be intelligence adulteration caused by radical feminism and the general immaturity level of parents.\n\nFirst, for over a generation now, women have been told that they can do everything that men can do, and that there is no such thing as a physical-based difference in men and women. Aside from the obvious falsity of this (women are able to bear children and men are not able to) we have as a result women that drink like men, smoke like men and cuss like men. I fail to see how any of these things are an improvement. But the female behaviors have been held up as a standard to which men ought to aspire. \n\nThe proposition is not true, but we have heard it so often and for such a long period of time, that it begins to sound familiar; and even sounds reasonable and right-- because it sounds familiar! This is what is meant by 'intelligence adulteration'.\n\nSecond, many parents these days begin their families early, as a result of being saturated with sexually-oriented stimulation in the media and the schools. Not all of these parents are ready to be parents. It is one of the most difficult jobs in the world and is not for cowards. So it is not suprising that such persons have little or no lasting power when it comes to facing the stress of everyday parenting. They want peace and quiet. They cannot cope with wild kids. \n\nThey think that they are being asked to do something that NO generation of parents has ever had to do before, when it is-- in fact-- what EVERY generation of parents has had to do before. \n\nAnd they medicate their children rather than disciplining themselves and their children.
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a long time ago society was matriarchal.  women were respected, and everything was passed down from mother to daughter.\n\nthen men realized that they were physically stronger, and things started to change.  religion went from being goddess based to being patriarchal.\n\nwomen were no longer respected but despised.  everything that was wrong with society was blamed on women.  from the garden of eden to inciting lust.\n\nit has taken centuries for us to regain some of what was lost.  \nall the things that you mentioned are man's way of keeping control.  we don't drive them to anything.  it's their own fear that makes them do the things that they do.\n\nfor the record i don't think that all men are like that.  my husband is a wonderful man, and we have been together for thirty years.