Social changes

The headlines tell the tale today that social attitudes are changing. "Marriage is no longer the norm".

Our attitudes to marriage have certainly changed - recent articles in the Telegraph on affairs - where to cut a long story short peoples belief in their personal entitlement to certain relationships seems to drive, through to Mistresses, a new BBC drama TV.

The impact of a decline in marriage on significant proportions of society has been adequately outlined elsewhere - not least by the excellent work of Iain Duncan Smith and his team.

There is also a growing realisation that some peoples desire to live without any restrictions is condemning others to a hopeless existence in other parts of society.

But what is driving all this ? Here are my list of factors (add or tack issue in the comments if you want):

1) Greater proportion of people going to University leading to a prolonged adolescence. At Uni these sort of liberal life style choices have strong attraction ( personal gratification not being the least ), there is also an anti-authority backlash, as everyone has just broken free of their parents. An almost unique community without responsibility that exists under the illusion of eternal youth and that no sacrifices are required or responsibilities to others exist.
2) The socially liberal media effectively tells people what to believe. It is quite clear that the BBC effectively tries to brain wash inform people in what to think (think East Enders or the Archers). People like the BBC are vastly unrepresentative of the country at whole - but strive to change the country into their own image.
3) A lack of faith and knowedge of that faith. Now that many people don't believe in revealed truth ( as certainly the abrahamic religions do, and maybe others ) there is no reason not to drift. As long as no one puts restrictions on you, then you don't insist on restrictions on them. This is in many ways the real "no such thing a society" message that people wrongly attribute to Mrs T through too narrowly quoting her famous interview.

Based on these forces, and the only effective resistance being a minority of the Christian church, Islam and other imported religions I would expect drift to continue. It is the ultimate example of the selfish society the left have allowed us to become.

And as always it will be those who are most vulnerable who will pay the price for the country's excesses.