the effects of moral degeneration on the value system on the families in the east-coast of the...

“The effects of moral degeneration on the value system on the families in the east-coast of the

United States.”

Case study title:

What are the effects of moral degeneration on the value system of the families in the United States?

Major Problem:

1. What are the indicators of moral degeneration in the United States?

Minor Problems:

2. What are the causes of moral degeneration in the United States?

Minor Problems:

3. How do the following social-organizations/ agencies influence the morality of the people in the East Coast of the United States:

Minor Problems:

• Government• School• Media• Church• Home

This study is conducted in order to:

Purpose of the study:

1. To perceive the effect of moral degeneration on the families in the United States.

2. To identify the factors that contributes to the moral degeneration on the people in the East-coast of the United States.

3. To see how the government, the school, the media, the church, and the household influence the morality of the people in the East-coast of the United States.

SOCIETY• community• school• church• government• media

FAMILY• father• mother• siblings• extended-family• guardians

BELIEFS• faith• purpose• existence• virtue• conviction

ETHICS• courtesy• manners• behavior• decency

PEERS• security• model• counsel• support group

FAMILYVALUES• unity

• submission• cooperation

• obedience to parents

MORALITY• respect• love• honor• loyalty• Integrity• courage

Inter-relation that Encompass Morality

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SOCIETY• community• school• church• government• media

FAMILY• father• mother• siblings• extended-family• guardians

BELIEFS• faith• purpose• existence• virtue• conviction

ETHICS• courtesy• manners• behavior• decency

PEERS• security• model• counsel• support group

FAMILYVALUES• unity

• submission• cooperation

• obedience to parents

MORALITY• respect• love• honor• loyalty• Integrity• courage

Inter-relation that Encompass Morality

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INTRODUCTION

TRAITOR

TRAITOR

HONOR

INTEGRITY

COURAGE

LOVE

RESPECT

I. INDICATORS OF MORAL DEGENERATION

YearViolent crime

Murder and non-negligentmanslaughter

Forcible rape

RobberyAggravatedassault

2012 386.7 4.7 26.9 112.9 242.3

2011 387.1 4.7 27.0 113.9 241.5

2010 403.6 4.8 27.5 119.1 252.3

2009 431.9 5.0 29.1 133.1 264.7

2008 457.5 5.4 29.7 145.7 276.7

2007 466.9 5.6 30.0 147.6 283.8

2006 473.6 5.7 31.0 149.4 287.5

2005 469.0 5.6 31.8 140.8 290.8

2004 463.2 5.5 32.4 136.7 288.6

2003 475.8 5.7 32.3 142.5 295.4

2002 494.4 5.6 33.1 146.1 309.5

East-cost State 1900 1995 1999 2000 2001 2002

Maine 4.3 4.4 5.1 5.0 4.7 4.6

Delaware 4.4 5.0 4.5 3.9 3.9 3.5

Massachusetts 2.8 2.2 2.5 2.5 2.4 2.5

Rhode Island 3.7 3.6 2.7 2.9 3.1 3.2

Georgia 5.5 5.1 4.1 3.3 3.1 2.5

New York 3.2 3.0 3.3 3.0 3.5 3.4

New Jersey 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.3 3.4

Pennsylvania 3.3 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1

Numbers of abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44, by year. The United States. Guttmacher.org

National Survey of Family Growth, 2002. through Wikipedia.

“74 percent, believes moral values in America are weaker than they were 20 years ago.”

Leo Brent Bozell III, President, Media Center Reasearch

75% of all men and women in the U.S. engaged in sexual intercourse by their late teenage years,

and more than 60% of all sexually experienced teens had two or more partners.

the average age of first sexual intercourse in U.S. participants aged 15 to 44 was 17.3 years for females and 17.0 years for males.

2002 National Survey of Family Growth, published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Number of births, birth rate, and percentage of births to unmarried women: United States, 1940 – 2007. Source: CDC/NCHS, National Vital Statistics System

“Children born to single mothers typically have more limited social and financial resources.”

National Vital Statistics System, 2007

13 million self-described atheists and agnostics (nearly 6% of the U.S. public) 33 million people who say they have no particular religious affiliation (14%).

Pew Research Center 2012

II. Causes of Moral Degeneration in the United States

“The Frog in a Boiling Pot”

• Spiritual

Turning away from God

Different Views to the Cause of Moral Degeneration in the United States.

“There has been a general turning away from the God of the Bible. People feel the freedom to develop whatever ideas they want to about God. Morality has become almost equivalent with public opinion. What's right is whatever the majority thinks.

Prof. Jeff Miller, IGSL

• Political

• Spiritual

Turning away

from God

Corruption

Different Views to the Cause of Moral Degeneration in the United States.

“As long as it doesn’t have a direct lethal effect to the person, (pornography for example), it is acceptable and it is welcome to the society.”

- anonymous

• Economic

• Political• Spiritual

Turning away from

God

Absolute Democrac

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Great Recession

Different Views to the Cause of Moral Degeneration in the United States.

“From 1950 to the mid-1970s, the rate of profit in the U.S. economy declined almost 50 percent, from around 22 to around 12 percent”

International Socialist Review through Isr.org

• Social• Economic

• Political• Spiritual

Turning away from

God

Absolute Democrac

y

Media Biases

Great Recession

Different Views to the Cause of Moral Degeneration in the United States.

“In today’s changing moral and ethical standards, the press has been an influential force in convincing Americans that various secular progressive ideals are in the best interest of society. Those that object are deemed intolerant haters, bigots, fascists, and a host of other colorful adjectives.”

lionsdenmedia.hubpage.com

“…today, that (morality) is being challenged by the other institutions (media). When there are differing views it leads to confusion and De-emphasizes standards.”

Prof. Frank Pardue, IGSL

• Social• Economic

• Political• Spiritual

Turning away from

God

Absolute Democrac

y

Media Biases

Great Recession

Different Views to the Cause of Moral Degeneration in the United States.

Summary of the Effect of Moral Degeneration on the Family Values

1. Lost of domestic dependency.

2. Development of materialistic attitude due to financial difficulty.

3. Loss of time for family connection.

4. Individualism.

5. Confusion about truth and the standards related to truth.

DISARRAY

UNMUTUAL-AID

RESISTANCE

CYCLE OF FAMILY-VALUES DETERIORATION

Failure to provide:• affection• guidance and counsel• financial support

Loss of parental authority• disobedience• rebellion• independency

Extinction of:• table ethics• domestic dependency• family ties

III. The Impact of Social-organizations to the Morality

of People in the U.S.

The Government

“These were,—first, to protect the people against their rulers, secondly ... of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both.”

James Madison, Father of American Constitution

The School

““Schools and teachers can promote habits and routines that build dispositions to care for others, and they can work to create democratic communities—opportunities for students, guided by adults, to create moral norms and rules for the classroom or school, to solve ethical dilemmas in the classroom, and to determine sanctions.”

Richard Weissbourd

The Church

“And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

George Washington, farewell address 1796

However, still according to Pew Research Center Forum on Religion & Public Life, conducted jointly with the PBS television program Religion & Ethics News Weekly, many of the country’s 46 million unaffiliated adults are religious or spiritual in some way. Two-thirds of them say they believe in God (68%). More than half say they often feel a deep connection with nature and the earth (58%), while more than a third classify themselves as “spiritual” but not “religious” (37%), and one-in-five (21%) say they pray every day.

The church answers the questions “How shall I live?” “What values or principles shall I accept?” “What norms shall I make my own?” “What gives meaning to my life?”

rediscover.archspm.org

The Media

“Many people are more attached to television broadcast and this from my perception has had both negative and positive influence on the morals of our today’s society, considering the fact that what we see have more impact or impression on our being than just what we hear.”

EnieNdoh Cecile, Worldpulse.com

“Media can help to raise a new generation of young people with a higher tastes and expectations the general public must be taught to me more discriminating and more critical of what it reads, hears and sees.”

Harold H. Titus and Morris Keetonin,‘Ethics for Today’

Child Television Statistics  

Number of minutes per week that the average child watches television

1,480

Percent of 4-6 year-olds who, when asked to choose between watching TV and spending time with their fathers, preferred television

54 %

Hours per year the average American youth spends in school

900 hours

Hours per year the average American youth watches television

1,200

Number of violent acts seen on TV by age 18 150,000

Number of 30 second TV commercials seen in a year by an average child

16,000

The Family

FAMILY

CHURCH

SCHOOL & COMMUNITY

MEDIA

GOVERNMENT

Model

Promote

Practice

Protect

DUTIES OF SOCIAL INSTUTIONS IN ASSERTING MORALITY

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