I think we can all agree that we have some serious problems in America, but like the song says – and we all hope – change is going to come.

Change is in the air and hopefully we can remain an optimistic nation.  It isn’t just the surprising emergence and election of Barack Obama, we needed optimism anyway.  It is almost as if we can only go up from our current situation.  There seem to be so many things wrong it is difficult to list all the things that need to be fixed.  This prompts me to ask, what do you think is the worst problem in America?

I will answer for myself and say the family is the worst problem in America.  Children in intact nuclear families are statistically better off in virtually every way.  But it is an unfortunate reality that many children will not have a mother and father in the household.

1 out of every 4 teenage girls has at least one sexually transmitted disease!  With our current awareness and the availability of products to prevent this, I think this is an absolutely ridiculous statistic.  Oh, and whatever happened to teenagers NOT having sex?

A lower fertility rate, higher divorce rate, questionable morals and other family issues lead to what I think is the foundation to many other problems in America.  At the rate we are going we could vanish off the face of the earth!

If we want to fix our country I believe we need to start from the bottom up.  We need to start, literally and figuratively, at home.  What do you think?