Usama2:

"... America... decriminalized all sex outside of marriage. You made all sex a public choice. You virtually removed all moral, religious, and ethical standards surrounding sex, except consent. You ignored the complimentary nature of the sexes, attempting to claim each sex is merely identical: as if Woman was just Aw and man was Am, when in fact men and women are indeed different, yet compliment each other sexually like positive and negative electrical charge, even if they are identical spiritually and intellectually.

But this fallacy was done for economics: to strip humans of their complimentary nature to render the human into a symmetrical "individual consumer": the pillar of the capitalist society, a calculable factor of the market economic model. Thus, measures were made according to the 'consumer', the 'individual'. Laws and entire theories were developed surrounding the 'individual'.

But according to Human Nature, the individual person is merely a component of the FAMILY- the real pillar of human society. And that the individual man and woman compliment each other in marriage to form a family unit in which children prosper, all things being equal.

So the foreseeable future reveals that as the economy grows and continues to dominate American society, the family unit continues to weaken in each successive generation. Single parent households are the majority in the black community, reaching 80% in some urban areas. Similarly, single parent homes are the majority in the Latino community and are reaching 30% in the white community...

Unmarried households form the majority of households in America. This reality forces changes in personal finances, workplace rules, parenting duties, personal relations for parents and between parents and children, and so forth. And all of this is directly tied to the impact of capitalism, or more specifically: Friedmanesque 'liberalist capitalist ideological forces" on American family- my original point.

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And regarding the occurence of similar sociological trends in Europe, Asia, and Africa, it is quite reasonable to identify the IDEA behind the common systems at work.

As I mentioned previously, as a society adopts 'liberalist' capitalism as its ideology which invites deregulation, privatization, and "individual rights above the family" which render sex outside of marriage a personal liberty, all kinds of sexual practices in which the human being is capable of performing - which includes a vast spectrum- the common results occur. STDs become widspread. SubSaharan Africa has been devastated by the spread of HIV and AIDS in large part because the political and economic forces which pushed 'free markets' and 'free sexual rights' broke down the moral standards and traditions, good or bad, which governed sexual behavior.

In East Asia, the poorer nations that have adopted the same ideology have experienced systemic forces which push the poorest families to literally sell their children into sexual slavery, endentured child servitude, and render children and women as products to be measured based on their economic market values. This is most evident in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, increasingly in Vietnam, and to a lesser extent in rural and poor China.

[That's not even mentioning the labor of 100s of millions at such tiny wages AND at such disparity with the market prices of the goods they manufacture and the profits they produce that amount to a form of economic slavery, or virtual slavery]

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But the IDEA is not solely American. America is the leader of the ideology. It promotes, propagates, and advances the IDEA and its systems. Yet its position as the center of the world's global economy so far cushions it from the disastrous consequences experienced in the world's poorest regions, such as East Asia and subSaharan Africa. We do not YET have families selling their children into slavery. America experiences different symptoms: the breakdown of the family unit. In any case, the IDEA is liberalist capitalism: an ideological movement advanced by the most powerful forces in the world, namely global corporations.

One of the world's leading proponents of liberalist capitalism is the American Enterprise Institute, AEI. Its board of Trustees sets its organization's ideology, its funding, etc. They include representatives of the most powerful corporations in the world: including retired CEO of ExxonMobil, Chairman of Dow Chemical, Chairman of CIGNA, retired CEO of American Express, retired CEO of Merck, CEO of Internationl Paper, reps from scores of lobbying firms, and more.

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"AEI's purposes are to defend the principles and improve the institutions of American freedom and democratic capitalism--limited government, private enterprise, individual liberty and responsibility, vigilant and effective defense and foreign policies, political accountability, and open debate. Its work is addressed to government officials and legislators, teachers and students, business executives, professionals, journalists, and all citizens interested in a serious understanding of government policy, the economy, and important social and political developments."

A lot of what I have said are just observations on reality. You may disagree with some aspects, perhaps you even disagree that there is a problem. Perhaps you think the benefits outweigh the negative consequences regarding capitalism.

Perhaps someone here is a regular contributor to the AEI. If so, I welcome your views. That may apply if one thinks the matter is only regarding America. Nonetheless, I welcome debate on the observation that the IDEA is the heart of the systemic problem.