The Social Environment of the Western Citizen from a Family Perspective
The progressive consolidation of liberal Western democracies over recent decades has granted citizens a regime of rights and freedoms unprecedented for previous generations. While this might seem to naturally translate into greater civic awareness and personal responsibility, this is not always the case. The sacrifice of the permissive father who steps aside so as not to hinder his child’s progress toward adulthood can, in difficult moments of crisis, turn into the figure of a weak and helpless father, incapable of setting the boundaries necessary to regulate infantile jouissance and the assumption of adult responsibilities…
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