English: "People Don't Know Right from Wrong Anymore" Lillian B. Rubin

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Standard Disclaimer: This is homework. This is a summary in progress for English class. I swear to gods, if any complete bozo uses my work without due credit in their English class, using my journal as source, I am going to have to get excessively unhappy.

First up: dividing the essay into general sections.
Interesting essay. I'm to pump out a rough summary of it tomorrow.

• Mom gets pissy.


• Summary of Mom's past


• It's different now.


• Forced marriage?


• Husband stomps out


• this is not unusual


• Men remarry; women of broken households don't.


• Why aren't single moms more supportive of their kids' other choices?


• Children see the world differently: working class


• Ditto, middle-class


• Why are middle class parents more open?


• Values have indeed changed


• The daughter's viewpoint


• compare/contrast mother/daughter terrors


• shame and guilt; differences in attitudes towards pregnancy and divorce


• sex, attitudes


• the new dream of the woman


• and statistics to back it up


• delay of marriage is not rejection of marriage


• longer lifespans have an impact


• black/white marriage stats differ


• cultural conditioning and lack of men


• some viewpoints on the lack of eligible black men


• white girls' attitudes toward marriage


• white boys, ditto


• Apron strings: middle class kids staying at home after college


• working class kids leaving home


• Do girls want Mama/Daddy watching their sex life?


• more analysis of the financial realities of living at home/moving out working class/middle class


• authoritarian parenting: what's good for you/ social status


• "You got no control over kids anymore!"


• Different or worse?


• Falling into the abyss


• ideal vs. real values in the new economy


• "This is my child!"


• Changing cultures rocks the boat


• Statistics don't lie, but statisticians can


• There never were the "good old days"


• Things change, whether it's for better or worse doesn't matter -- we just have to deal with it and not let it distract us.