...with the obligations and social norms that held families and communities together in earlier years. People came to feel that questions of how to live and with whom to live were a matter of individual choice not to be governed by restrictive norms. As a nation, we came to experience...

...memories of the Depression faded and as the middle class expanded—has weakened traditional restraint: People came to feel that questions of how to live and with whom to live were a matter of individual choice not to be governed by restrictive norms. As a nation, we came to experience...

...disciplines have traced the rise during the past generation of choice as a core value. Market research expert Daniel Yankelovich suggests that what he calls the...questions of how to live and with whom to live were a matter of individual choice not to be governed by restrictive norms. As a nation, we came to experience...