Values: knowing right from wrong, moral ideas that encompass American culture. Many Americans believe that the values in this nation are on a decline. Sprouting from divorced families, out of control children, and teen pregnancies among other aspects, there is a strong feeling spreading across the nation that its moral beliefs are inadequate and need to be changed. Today, people all over the nation are embracing the values of the past in order to insure different morals for the next generation of Americans. This change is in great contrast to the 1960’s and ‘70’s antidisestablishmentarianistical attitude toward life that many of America’s adults grew up in. People are trying to revert back to the 1950’s values and beliefs which they rebelled against as young adults. Some, of these baby boomers have grown to become politicians in the nation’s government. When in power they propose legislation to improve the values in America. How can t
Melissa Healy writes on America’s moral decline in an essay called “Fighting to Fill the Values Gap.” She describes a Time questionnaire from 1996. 52% of the people who were polled found government interference into their personal lives more annoying then the government’s protection of activities that contrast toward family values. This finds that the majority of governmental morality regulations can only hinder the assimilation of past values into coming generations of Americans by creating an anti-government sentiment. This attitude in families can turn into another rebellious period in the nation’s cultural history.
Government regulations and intervention cannot replace what a child needs to learn from their parents about morals. The key to stopping the nation’s moral decline and creating better values for other generations is through family.
In a 1996 Los Angeles Times poll featured in Healy’s essay 78% of people asked wer
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