The core of this article is to discuss Marriage problems and family problems and how these huge problems have played a big role in how the recession has come about. I believe it is very constructive and instructive to look at marriage problems and or family problems as the prime source of this recession. I will finish this article on why I believe this hardship, we call the recession, will lead to a renewing of prioritizing marriage and family ethics and integrity.

I recently moved back to San Francisco, the bastion of free thinking and unfortunately the bastion of divorce and marriage problems. The most glaring observation that I have made is that there is a huge dichotomy in the population. On the one hand, there is this huge left conversation about how everything conservative is outdated. On the other hand there are families with kids, who are very concerned and worried for their families. They are looking at marriage problems and family problems everywhere. Both sides, see problems and want change and usually both sides blame the other side for the problems.

When I’ve engaged either side in conversation on the recession the only way I could get them out of their intense emotion of blame was to embark on getting them talking about the ethics and integrity issues that are so blatant and further that both sides of the aisle are buried in them.

I have a belief that finding places where we can agree is the core to solutions. This doesn’t mean the kind compromises that Washington does where a politician totally reneges on his or her pledge to do something for a favor that helps them stay in office. It means that solutions come from getting people discussing issues that most can understand. I believe these issues to be ethics and integrity in the family and society. Marriage problems and family problems have always existed but we now have had forty years since the sixties where the core institution of family and marriage have taken a serious beating and leading to what we see in society today.

So lets discuss how marriage problems and family problems being the source of the recession is based. I will start with a premise. That premise being that how we got here in this financial mess is forgetting what America has been based on. America has always been based on if you worked hard enough you could get ahead. This sounds simple but move to almost any other country and you will find that unless you were already rich or had political power from generations back you could not get ahead. It was for this very reason that families upon families left their country to come here. We were a country that was ruled by laws and for the most part ethics.

Please follow on part 2.

Dr. Robert Bocknek is the problem solving expert for parents and families at www.takebackthehome.com and www.keyboard-culture-parenting.com. He can be reached at bocknek@takebackthehome.com. He is author of the “Take Back the Home

     

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