Family Life US Families : Fathers Treated as Optional

Family disorganization is now more important than either race or income to explain violent crime, including gang crime. Why have Americans so weakened families? is now more important than either race or income to explain violent crime, including gang crime. Why have Americans so weakened families?
· Fathers [Wall Street]

UK Families: the Well-established 'link' between wooden playhouses and international terrorism

How sad that criminality should afflict those so young in British families. But tenderness of age should not deflect the righteous wrath held ever-ready to be visited upon those guilty of trying to sabotage our placid and convivial society. Who knows if this allegedly harmless toy was not, in reality, to be used as a stash of illegal weapons? Does anyone need to be reminded of the well-established 'link' between wooden playhouses and international terrorism?

But let us not dwell on the morbid consequences of this kind of wild insurrection. Let us, instead, pay a simple homage to our fearless public officials who have saved us, yet again, from civilisational catastrophe. We may now all sleep safely, in the prescribed manner, in our properly regulated beds.
· Eagle-eyed and steely-nerved planning officers [News via Samizdata]

One of the reasons people used to pay so much attention to politics was that it offered cheap entertainment at a time when entertainment was scarce. Now entertainment is plentiful, and much of it is more entertaining than politics.
- InstaPundit a.k.a. Glenn Reynolds

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