Rediscovering family values: a key to sustainable freedom in an era of globalization
In the past few decades, a lot has changed in the world. There is now a global dimension to every societal value. Globalization has unlocked the local and national perceptions to a broader outlook of an interconnected and interdependent world. People are mingling in the world like never before. But...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institute for Interdisciplinary Research
[2016]
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Journal of interdisciplinary studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 28, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 89-106 |
| RelBib Classification: | CH Christianity and Society KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NCC Social ethics NCF Sexual ethics |
| Summary: | In the past few decades, a lot has changed in the world. There is now a global dimension to every societal value. Globalization has unlocked the local and national perceptions to a broader outlook of an interconnected and interdependent world. People are mingling in the world like never before. But these come with new challenges, new social regulations and controls that require adoption of new values, all of which foist on people competing and often incompatible demands between work and family, and have led to the erosion of pivotal values that hitherto bonded families together. Today, marriages are few, divorces are many, and the number of children born to unmarried, single parents has skyrocketed, with shocking social consequences. This essay unravels the apparent chaos in marital and family ethics arising from an unhindered freedom of choice in a globalized era, and proposes a rediscovery of sound traditional family values as a solution. |
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| ISSN: | 0890-0132 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of interdisciplinary studies
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