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President Obama talked a lot about key values that make America the nation that it is today and that will make America a better nation in the future. These values are things that comes from the family. If children are not taught these values at home with their families, how will they ever fully learn and experience them? Obviously our nation's problems will not be fixed overnight. However, if we educate the future generations on how to properly act, with honesty and integrity, in certain situations, then this country will be able to grow and prosper. -Kari | President Obama talked a lot about key values that make America the nation that it is today and that will make America a better nation in the future. These values are things that comes from the family. If children are not taught these values at home with their families, how will they ever fully learn and experience them? Obviously our nation's problems will not be fixed overnight. However, if we educate the future generations on how to properly act, with honesty and integrity, in certain situations, then this country will be able to grow and prosper. -Kari | ||
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| + | President Obama discussed specifically a sense of work ethic that we must return to. It is a call for a work ethic that demands every individual and every family to pull its own weight. I think when he said, “They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions,” that he is calling for a unity that Mintz and Kellogg would argue does not reflect the modern family, but according to President Obama must exist now. Similar to other comments the idea of “family” is alluded to indirectly when he discusses the need for a change in work ethic as well as a focus on future generations building and producing the “family” we have now. Obama also directly addresses the issue of what responsibilities the family has and what responsibility the state has with regards to family and childrearing, considering which government programs have been effective, which is an idea we will have to consider all semester. Who’s responsibility is it to educate children? Who’s responsibility is it to care for the elderly? And how have these responsibilities shifted and changed throughout time? It is also interesting to note that while President Obama acknowledged the need to evaluate the effectiveness of government programs that directly affect the family he also acknowledged what the government cannot do such as nurturing a child. – Mary Beth | ||
