Common Reading Initiative: Alum Version

Eight Habits of the Heart: Embracing the Values that Build Strong Families and Communities (African American History (Penguin)) is the book chosen for MUW's Common Reading Initiative this year.  Written by Clifton Taulbert, an African-American man raised on the Mississippi Delta in the early 1960's, during the segregation era, it gives eight habits Taulbert thinks we all need to adopt to create happy homes and families and to raise successful children.  In a short narrative, he recalls how friends and neighbors taught him these habits as much by action as by words.

The second and third habits about which Taulbert writes are dependability and responsibility.  About them he writes "While previous generations took it for granted that these habits were worth cultivating, in many places they have all but disappeared--and community has vanished with them".

Question:  Do you agree with Taulbert's statement above?  Why or why not?