'Until marriage returns to being the 'most respected' bond, a bond that binds the vast majority of households, our nation and its civil society will continue to suffer.' -conncarroll
The Social Capital Campaign, a nonpartisan think tank devoted to the promotion of the institutions that make up civil society, released a report Thursday that documents the historically low levels of trust Americans have in all of our institutions, including the media, big business, science, and organized religion.
The report begins by quoting Alexis de Tocqueville from Democracy in America: “Americans of all ages, all conditions, all minds constantly unite. … Everywhere that, at the head of a new undertaking, you see the government in France and a great lord in England, count on it that you perceive an association in the United States.”
But Tocqueville also identified the source of America’s unique commitment to the institutions of civil society. “Of the world’s countries, America is surely the one where the bond of marriage is most respected and where they have conceived the highest and most just idea of conjugal happiness,” Tocqueville wrote. “The American draws from his home the love of order, which he afterwards brings into affairs of state.
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