Missing Child in Liberal Theory Towards a Covenant Theory of Family, Community Welfare, and the Civic State

Every day we experience shocks to our civic sensibility. In our view, these shocks are due to the marketization of our social endowment, of family life, of childhood, health, and knowledge, of security and employment. The raw side of the trend towards the marketization and defamilization of the social bond is what we see in street crime, drugs, school drop-outs, single-family poverty, homelessness, and unemployment, which we experience either directly or vicariously through media reportage whose power to observe is equalled only by its inability to explain. Indeed, the media coverage of the daily degradation of the life-world is itself an essential ingredient in the reduction of social concern to social anxiety that further undermines civility.O'Neill, John is the author of 'Missing Child in Liberal Theory Towards a Covenant Theory of Family, Community Welfare, and the Civic State' with ISBN 9780802075864 and ISBN 080207586X.