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"Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all."
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"It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life."

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"The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life."

"A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today."
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