7 Decades of Change — What We See More Of

Part 4 of 7

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Broken and blended families

Family disintegration occurs when a family can no longer, in part or whole, play its role in children’s upbringing and society’s stability. The result includes poverty and problem behaviours. The most common cause of broken families is infidelity, leading to divorce, which causes severe psychological harm to the children.

There is no such thing as a typical family today. That wasn’t always true. Fifty years ago, in 1960, 73 percent of children lived in a household with two parents who were both in their first marriage. Today, however, families come in many forms. Just 46 percent of children today live in the type of family household that was typical in the 1970s. The rest live in single-parent households, or with parents who are living together but not married. Some live with two parents who have previously been married and bring with them children from those prior relationships. –Here’s how the American family has changed in the past 50 years

Children from broken families have less potential for prosperity, and the government perpetuates the problem.

Simply put, whether or not…