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Podcast: Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®
Episode: Graduation Day
Description: How much have times changed in the past 50 years? What is the difference in view point, expectation, and options for college graduates today versus those in 1968?
Of course, 1968 was no picnic. The Tet Offensive raged in the Viet Nam War, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, and the inner cities burned.
But in ’68, seniors in college became engaged and married soon after graduation, having children in the next few years. That was the sequence then, as religious institutions, schools, and the family dinner table imparted values. An “intact family” (two parents married for the first time and one or mor...