COVER STORY: Why families struggle to afford a home*

Traditional measures of economic growth routinely ignore the indispensable contribution of healthy intact families to society’s overall well-being.
The collapse of the American housing asset bubble, which triggered the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC), had much more to do with family breakdown than policy-makers have been prepared to acknowledge, according to Robert W. Patterson in the following article from The Family in America, which has important lessons for Australia.
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