Moral Decline

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I believe that America’s morality is on the decline. America has always been seen as a moral country but now the society in America has changed drastically. After William Bennett viewed polls showing that: “We Americans now place less value on what we owe others as a matter of moral obligation; less value on sacrifice as moral good, on social conformity, respectability, physical pleasure and sexuality-and correlatively greater value on things like self-expression, individualism, self-realization, and personal choice.” In the past some things that seemed unacceptable in society are now considered as acceptable. Many controversial things that are seen or spoken on TV nowadays would have never been broadcasted in the 1940s and 1950s. Some of these changes include the increases in the illegitimate birth and divorce rates.

Illegitimacy was once seen as embarrassing in America, but now it seems like the norm. The rate of illegitimate births in America went from 5 percent in 1960 to 32 percent in 1992. Because of this, there are so many children who do not know their biological fath...

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