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Why Family Dinners Are Important

Why Family Dinners Are Important
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I still remember it vividly. I was a 16-year-old boy, sitting around the dinner table with my parents in Fort Wayne, Indiana. As we sat eating our family dinner, I listened to my parents—one, a humble painting contractor; the other, a stay-at-home mom—and their deep concern about the state of our nation, particularly the rampant inflation coupled with a recession, which had been labeled as “stagflation.”

Timothy S. Goeglein
Timothy S. Goeglein
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Timothy S. Goeglein is vice president of external and government relations at Focus on the Family in Washington, D.C., and author of the new book “Stumbling Toward Utopia: How the 1960s Turned Into a National Nightmare and How We Can Revive the American Dream.”