Culture and the me generation

Re: “It’s OK to love being single” (Life by Design, Feb. 1)

Supermodel Adriana Lima perfectly sums up the current attitude of many young women today. She states, “I am committed to myself and my own happiness. I am married with me.”

An ever increasing egocentric and immature perspective on life is being perpetuated by pop culture and those too young to know any better.

In one generation, it seems, the emotional and psychological support and benefits that individuals and the community receive through the development of long-term relationships, commitment to a partner and child rearing have been destroyed. Our birthrate no longer can perpetuate our culture. We are no longer a society of families and children. It appears today’s young people are simply place holders, ready to hand off the baton to future immigrants who will gladly come and replace all the old people living alone 50 years from now. What a weak and dysfunctional culture we have become. Steve Hague, Pincourt