• Home
  • About Off The Grid
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
Saturday, June 21, 2025
  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Survival
  • Gardening
  • Food
  • Worldview
  • Health
  • Privacy
  • Hunting
  • Defense
  • Financial
  • News
  • Misc
No Result
View All Result
  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Survival
  • Gardening
  • Food
  • Worldview
  • Health
  • Privacy
  • Hunting
  • Defense
  • Financial
  • News
  • Misc
No Result
View All Result
Off The Grid News
Home Miscellaneous

Can We Hope To Maintain Healthy Families In This Culture?

by Jen A
in Miscellaneous, Top Headline
Print Print
Can We Hope To Maintain Healthy Families In This Culture?
Share on FacebookShare on XShare on TruthEmail Article

A healthy, happy family… the few who truly have that know what a blessing it can be. It’s something we want for ourselves, something we want to give to our children … something America increasingly just doesn’t have.

It’s not just about the ease of divorce – it’s about a lack of respect, mutual affection, and care among family members. Seniors get dumped in nursing homes, never to be visited again. Children are neglected in favor of work and social engagements. Relatives no longer enjoy spending time together and instead seem to be united only in a desire to humiliate and tear each other down.

The wounds of the me-first culture

Modern culture teaches selfishness and a me-first mentality. When you’re the center of your own universe, it’s hard to have room for the needs of others, even when those others are family members. Yet how can a family survive as a functioning unit when everyone’s just looking out for themselves?

The answer, of course, is that families aren’t surviving. Broken homes are so common these days that 68.7 percent of America’s youth live in “non-traditional” families: families with absent parents, step-parents, same-sex parents, or grandparents as the head of household. It’s often a shifting set of arrangements rather than a fixed family structure, further encouraging a mentality of looking out just for yourself.

With everyone’s outlook on themselves, it’s no wonder there’s so much neglect and callousness out there between family members. To live happily as a unit requires compromise, self-sacrifice, and a willingness to do things for the greater good over individual indulgence. Easy? No, and the current lack of self-discipline for rising to the challenge only contributes to the problems facing American families in all states.

A war between generations

Another element at work is what some cultural analysts refer to as a “war between generations.” It’s an emerging force in political issues and economic concerns, but the real fights will happen between the four walls of the family home.

Basically, the current youth generation is growing up in an environment burdened by the overspending and poor decisions of the previous generation. Baby Boomers retiring want to get all the benefits they’ve written into government policy and want to use up all the assets they’ve accumulated in their lives. The current working generation is expected to pay for it, with the youth of today expected to pay it off or live with the debt service.

Yet many young people don’t think there will be any Social Security left for them, and they look at the debts of their grandparents and parents as a raw deal. They don’t want any part of it, and they don’t appreciate the assumption that they’ll just pay for all of it. A duty to their elders? Maybe, but that’s not how they’re looking at it. Protestors and private arguments show that many young people feel they’re being thrown under the bus, and they’re only too willing to return the favor.

Unfortunately, if both sides are cutting each other down, there’s no side building things up. When each side thinks the other is greedy and lazy, there’s no respect or care being shown. An environment of pointing fingers and entitled attitudes doesn’t make for happy dinner tables or strong ongoing relationships between generations.

Getting back healthy families

Even with everything going wrong, many younger people dream of a happy marriage that lasts and a peaceful home life. They want to be a part of a family where everyone gets along and cares about each other. Yes, it’s an ideal state, and most know the statistics stacked against them – they live that reality at home. But the hope survives, and in that hope is the possibility of getting back healthy families.

It starts one household at a time. By honoring and supporting the family relationships that exist, more healthy familial relationships can be cultivated. It’s an attitude shift with the potential to gradually change culture. For every person who says in-fighting, disrespect, and callousness are okay, there needs to be a match who says no, that’s not how I will live, and I am willing to do the work to make a change. In that difference between perspectives, healthy families can emerge again and try to reclaim a positive home-life culture for this country.

©2012 Off the Grid News

ShareTweetShareSend

Related Posts

Top 5 Ginger Remedies You Must Know

Top 5 Ginger Remedies You Must Know

by Esther

The smell that permeates the air in your home when you add fresh ginger to a meal is simply incredible....

Why Are The Feds Stockpiling Ammunition?

Should you keep ammo in a gun safe?

by Off The Grid News

When it comes to gun safety, one of the most important aspects is the safe storage of ammunition. There are...

Hair And Urine: The Absolute Best Way To Keep Animals Out Of Your Garden?

10 Reasons to Choose Natural Hair Products This Year

by Off The Grid News

From natural hair movement to living a sustainable life, more and more people are drawing towards natural hair products instead...

Next Post
The Line Between Yesterday And Tomorrow

The Line Between Yesterday And Tomorrow

Please login to join discussion

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE

The Amazing Black Walnut Fights Parasites Naturally

The Amazing Black Walnut Fights Parasites Naturally

Does Free Speech Offend You?

Does Free Speech Offend You?

Domestic Drone Countermeasures Has An Answer For All Those Eyes In The Sky

Domestic Drone Countermeasures Has An Answer For All Those Eyes In The Sky

TRENDING STORIES

  • bubonic plague

    Is Another Bubonic Plague Pandemic On The Horizon?

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Waco Fertilizer Plant Explosion & A Look Back On The “Waco Massacre”

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Make Yourself 3 Times More Likely To Survive A Heart Attack

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • AI Surveillance Of Shoppers: Walmart’s Newest Tool To Grab Your Data

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • ‘Apocalyptic’ Microchip Implants Are Here – And Being Inserted Into People’s Hands

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0

Subscribe to our Insider Newsletter

Huge discounts on off-the-grid gear and life saving supplements.






‘Off The Grid News’ is an independent, weekly email newsletter and website that is crammed full of practical information on living and surviving off the grid. Advice you’ll never hear from the mainstream media.

  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Extreme Survival
  • Survival Gardening
  • Off-Grid Foods
  • Worldview
  • Natural Health
  • Survival Hunting
  • Privacy
  • Financial
  • Current Events
  • Self Defense
  • Home Defense
  • Pain-Free Living
  • Miscellaneous
  • Off Grid Videos

© Copyright 2025 Off The Grid News.  All Rights Reserved.

Privacy Policy   Terms & Conditions
No Result
View All Result
  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Survival
  • Gardening
  • Food
  • Worldview
  • Health
  • Privacy
  • Hunting
  • Defense
  • Financial
  • News
  • Misc
  • Videos

© Copyright 2025 Off The Grid News.  All Rights Reserved.