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Re:Americans overestimate social mobility in their country by ryandrake on Sunday December 12, 2021 @10:10PM (#29536161)
The phrase "Family Values" is pretty vague, too. I'm sure if you asked almost everyone who is in a family whether they felt they had family values they'd say yes. I'm not really sure what someone means when they say an area has "family values". I don't think it means lack of divorce.

In the 90s, I remember "family values" having been used by politicians as a polite euphemism for the very narrow "straight, Christian, atomic" view of what a family should be.

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Re:Americans overestimate social mobility in their country by AussieWog93 on Monday December 13, 2021 @12:02AM (#29536806)
>I don't think it means lack of divorce.

I'd definitely view a lack of divorce as a pretty big part of it.

But as you said, it's entirely personal and subjective. :)

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