….Society is breaking at both the local and national level, precipitated, to a large extent, by the dramatic rise in single, white mothers. Correlating three national longitudinal studies, Murray reveals this statistic about children whose mothers turned forty between 1997 and 2004: In Belmont, 90% still lived with both biological parents; in Fishtown, it wasContinue reading “Man Turned in on Himself, Excerpt 14”
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Man Turned in on Himself, Excerpt 13
Responsibility Despite our determination to separate pleasure from duty, it remains an inescapable fact of our anatomy: sex leads to babies and the responsibilities of child rearing. Just as sin has led us to make an end run around marriage, so, too, we have sought to avoid the responsibility intended to go hand in handContinue reading “Man Turned in on Himself, Excerpt 13”
Man Turned in on Himself, excerpt 10
In Garret Hardin’s 1968 essay, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” he asserts that shared resources needed to sustain the life and livelihoods of a group have always been undermined—even to the point of elimination—by individuals acting in their own self-interest. Hardin’s premise is drawn from an 1833 pamphlet on medieval land usage which surmises thatContinue reading “Man Turned in on Himself, excerpt 10”
Heather Choate Davis 