text: I grew up in a time when traditional family values were sacred.  Dinner time was the focal point of our day.  What our parents said went - whether we disagreed or not. It was okay to disagree - not okay to disrupt everyone else's life because of it.  Healthy debates were common - meaness was not tolerated.  Mom was home with us, Dad worked and provided for us.\n\nToday, life is so much more complicated.  There are so many more things to consider and evaluate about every single aspect of life.  More people question what's right or what's wrong.  People get offended more easily and think it's okay to sue their neighbor if their dog barks too much.  That was unheard of when I was young. \n\nSomehow along the way, people have become so ME-oriented that they forget they aren't the only ones here.  God put us here and He taught us love.  We're all in this together, and people are forgetting that.  There's very little tolerance for differences of opinions, or other folks point of view.  There's very little willingness to work together with strangers or loved ones to work things out and come to a common agreement.  \n\nInstead of walking over to a neighbor's house to try to work out a disagreement, people sue each other now.  There's so little trust in others these days that no one dares take a chance that someone else is sincere.\n\nThere was once a day - not that long past that I would have (and have) gotten in the car of a total stranger when I needed a ride.  (hitchhiking) ;)  There was a time when I would have (and have) stopped when I saw someone sitting by the side of the road with a car that was broke down.  Nowadays - people put a sun screen in their windows saying "call police" when they need help. \n\nIt's not just traditional family values that have been forgotten - it's loving your neighbor, loving and trusting with the innocence of a child that's been lost.  I think the last part is because of loss of family values.  I think the loss of traditional family values is because of the loss of morals an traditions that helped folks to remember it's all about love, and that we're all in this together.  \n\nPeople were not perfect then - none of us can be, but they cared for one another enough to think more about them, than themselves.  It's called love.  We're losing it.\n\nGod Bless,