The state of morality in America has, by the numbers, changed very little over the last decade. Most view it as declining, and a majority already considers it pretty lousy.
However steady our grim appraisals, the morals themselves are clearly in flux. Polls from Barna and Pew both shed light on what might be deemed as slipping standards. And sociologist Alan Wolfe has identified and documented the shift away from generally received, traditional morality to personally determined codes of conduct that bend with time and whim.
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