![]() ![]() And housing welfare families in squalid welfare hotels at $2,000 a month is both unconscionable and counterproductive, she contends. Restrictions on free legal abortions have resulted in the birth of unwanted children whose societal costs become a monumental burden to all. Government policies-local and national-have been equally detrimental. ![]() With the therapists and feminists of the Sixties, she argues, came a ``me first'' philosophy that fostered divorce and neglected children. Hewlett places much of the onus for the crisis on the breakdown of the family. Our barely literate high-school graduates, she says, cannot compete with their peers in Japan or Europe. Hewlett also cites increasing numbers of broken marriages, unwed teen-age mothers, and drug-addicted babies. Of these, 330,000 are homeless and 12 million are uninsured and medically neglected. There are almost 13 million poor children in this country, Hewlett declares-a rise of 20% since 1979. American children, contends economist Hewlett (The Cruel Dilemmas of Development, 1980), are victims of private and public neglect. A searing critique of the American family, our corporate leaders and public officials. ![]()
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