In 2014, there are fewer households with two earners than in 1980. That's shocking because women's labor force participation has increased dramatically. Marriage is kind of dying as an institution and some, it's not dead, but it's definitely also waningAs religion is, we would get human contact when we're coming home to us. Boughs is another way to feel connected to humanity.
Journalist and author Sebastian Junger talks about his book Tribe with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Junger explores the human need to be needed and the challenges facing many individuals in modern society who struggle to connect with others. His studies of communal connection include soldiers in a small combat unit and American Indian society in the nineteenth century.