http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/Unscripted/archives/2008/07/14/new-study-your-earnings-determine-your-culture Comments On: New study: Your earnings determine your culture by John Stoehr en-us Copyright 2009 Charleston City Paper. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Charleston City Paper readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Charleston City Paper. jcurry@charlestoncitypaper.com (Charleston City Paper Webmaster) Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0500 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:00:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss "The Canadian survey also brings up a subject that’s hard to bring up among the high earning and highly educated people that are the subject of this survey — the role that mothers play in the acculturation of their children. Used to be that a child’s cultural education started at home. Now, since the 1970s, the beginning of the current social structure of two people bringing home incomes to meet the demands that used to be met by one income, a child’s cultural education is more likely to begin at school. This is a shift that should get more discussion among those of us involved in the arts and those of us observing those involved in the arts. Problem is, the role of women remains politically charged, what with the ascendancy, since the Reagan Administration, of the pernicious “family values” orthodoxy. It would be difficult to have a mature conversation about it." Earlier conservatives (particularly the Southern Agrarians and Russell Kirk) criticized industrial capitalism because it disrupted organic communities and the nuclear family. Their complaint, that instead of an integrated, work/family environment (the family farm for example) fathers would have to leave their families for extended periods of time, disrupting traditional (and as they would say, "normal") patterns of child raising. These criticisms were made in the 1930's, 40's and 50's . Today it's a double whammy - where both parents are far removed, or more removed than they once were, from the life and raising of their children. Government schools, as you noted, often have more influence than Mom and Dad. Most Americans of average means have no other choice - they have to work to survive, despite what it does to family life. Being disconnected is the new norm. The funny thing is, other than old school conservatives, the only similar criticisms I have seen of modern, industrial capitalism as it relates to family issues, are a few thoughtful Leftists and feminists, although for entirely different reasons. Good post. Jack
Posted by jackhunter]]> Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:27:59 -0400 Charleston City Paper "The Canadian survey also brings up a subject that’s hard to bring up among the high earning and highly educated people that are the subject of this survey — the role that mothers play in the acculturation of their children. Used to be that a child’s cultural education started at home. Now, since the 1970s, the beginning of the current social structure of two people bringing home incomes to meet the demands that used to be met by one income, a child’s cultural education is more likely to begin at school. This is a shift that should get more discussion among those of us involved in the arts and those of us observing those involved in the arts. Problem is, the role of women remains politically charged, what with the ascendancy, since the Reagan Administration, of the pernicious “family values” orthodoxy. It would be difficult to have a mature conversation about it." Earlier conservatives (particularly the Southern Agrarians and Russell Kirk) criticized industrial capitalism because it disrupted organic communities and the nuclear family. Their complaint, that instead of an integrated, work/family environment (the family farm for example) fathers would have to leave their families for extended periods of time, disrupting traditional (and as they would say, "normal") patterns of child raising. These criticisms were made in the 1930's, 40's and 50's . Today it's a double whammy - where both parents are far removed, or more removed than they once were, from the life and raising of their children. Government schools, as you noted, often have more influence than Mom and Dad. Most Americans of average means have no other choice - they have to work to survive, despite what it does to family life. Being disconnected is the new norm. The funny thing is, other than old school conservatives, the only similar criticisms I have seen of modern, industrial capitalism as it relates to family issues, are a few thoughtful Leftists and feminists, although for entirely different reasons. Good post. Jack
Posted by jackhunter]]> Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:27:59 -0400 Charleston City Paper he said that "[w]ithin the next weeks, not months, there will be a major breakthrough on the benchmarks regarding political reconciliation" in Iraq. Unfortunately, the grain of salt his opinions are worth are vastly over-magnified by the "very serious" reporters and pundits in DC.
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