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Essay / Moral Decline - 590
I believe American morality is in decline. America has always been considered a moral country, but today American society has changed dramatically. After William Bennett viewed polls showing that: “We Americans now place less value on what we owe others as a moral obligation; less value placed on sacrifice as a moral good, 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 acceptable. Many controversial things seen or talked about on television today would never have been broadcast in the 1940s and 1950s. Some of these changes include increasing illegitimate birth and divorce rates. Illegitimacy was once considered embarrassing in America, but now seems to be the norm. The illegitimate birth rate in America increased from 5 percent in 1960 to 32 percent in 1992. That's why there are so many children who don't know their biological father....