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To the Editor.— The study by Dr Resnick and colleagues,¹ particularly their findings regarding parent-family connectedness as a protective factor against emotional distress, is timely, given the destructive waves that are eroding the institution of the family in the United States. Their findings have important social policy implications, given the ever-increasing rates of marital dissolution (marriages that end in divorce are estimated at over 60%), single-parent families (over 30%), births to unwed mothers (over 30%), and the unprecedented increasing proportion of mothers in paid employment with toddlers and children younger than 6 years (over 60%).² Resnick and colleagues could have strengthened their conclusions by relating their findings to these current social trends.

Because of the "political correctness" mentality that is prevailing in academia,³ health professionals seem to refrain from open discussion of their findings' implications for social issues, such as parental unavailability to their children, family disintegration, and other onrushing . . . [Full Text of this Article]