Something this simple could help get American back on track...

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/12/14/family-meal-documentary.aspx?e_cid=20131214Z1_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20131214Z1&et_cid=DM35036&et_rid=367133743

The benefits are truly profound. Separate research showed, for instance, that with each additional family dinner, adolescents had:

Fewer emotional and behavioral problems
Greater emotional well-being
More trusting and helpful behaviors toward others
Higher life satisfaction

our culture is messed up.

this would be a good start but I afraid we have gone so far down the rabbit hole we need a entire makeover.

we have a entire country who want nothing more than to escape reality by getting high and doing as little as possible to get by. < this is our new American dream.

TEOTWAWKI wrote:http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/12/14/family-meal-documentary.aspx?e_cid=20131214Z1_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20131214Z1&et_cid=DM35036&et_rid=367133743

The benefits are truly profound. Separate research showed, for instance, that with each additional family dinner, adolescents had:

   Fewer emotional and behavioral problems
   Greater emotional well-being
   More trusting and helpful behaviors toward others
   Higher life satisfaction

No longer possible. Government has been discouraging the FAMILY since President Lyndon Baines Johnson started the War on Poverty and his Great Society. Those policies have intentionally destroyed the low income family unit made up primarily of black families.

How do you have a family meal when families have ben taught that GOVERNMENT will take care of their kids from free pre-school to free breakfast, free lunch so mom doesn't even have to get out of bed to see the kids off to school.

Progressives demand that not be changed because that would give personal responsibility to the individual and NOT to the GOVERNMENT.

America is just fine and getting better every day. We still eat as a family at least twice a week with the kids and grandkids. It is a special time. The conversation and learning is great for young kids. I do not think government had a thing to do with the family dinner, rather the growth of women in the workforce starting in the 70s and the TV which tends to have people not eating at the table but gathered around the TV......not the best conversation or attention to each other.........but the government angle destroying families is pretty creative......probably from hours and hours of watching tv by yourself eating a swanson tv dinner..........I bet Mr. Markle loves those apple slices.

2seaoat wrote:America is just fine and getting better every day.  We still eat as a family at least twice a week with the kids and grandkids.  It is a special time.  The conversation and learning is great for young kids.   I do not think government had a thing to do with the family dinner, rather the growth of women in the workforce starting in the 70s and the TV which tends to have people not eating at the table but gathered around the TV......not the best conversation or attention to each other.........but the government angle destroying families is pretty creative......probably from hours and hours of watching tv by yourself eating a swanson tv dinner..........I bet Mr. Markle loves those apple slices.

And the growth of women in the work force grew primarily because with the massive increase in taxes one income was no longer enough to support a family.

Government intentionally or unintentionally destroyed the family unit by rewarding bad behavior and punishing good behavior. It is going on today with ObamaCare.

Not creative that the government is destroying family units. That, as you know, has been going on for decades, since President Lyndon Baines Johnson.