Watching A Generation Waste Away: SYLVIA ANN HEWLETT

Economist SYLVIA ANN HEWLETT argues that America is callously treating its youth like excess baggage and throwing away its future prosperity

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A. We need access to free prenatal care. Companies should provide flextime and compressed schedules for working parents so that they can have more time with their families. We need mortgage subsidies for young families and tougher enforcement of child-support laws. We should throw sand in the machinery of divorce, force parents to think about what they are doing. We must hold parents accountable for the welfare of their children, and ourselves responsible for the care of America's youth. Otherwise we will not make it. Our standard of living will steadily decline. And the truth is, only a society that cherishes its children deserves to thrive.

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