As for family values, America's small towns and rural havens suffer from higher rates of maritalbreakdown and illegitimate births than the degenerate big cities.
Certainly there is a suspiciously close correlation between the rise in women's employment and their earning power relative to that of men on the one hand, and the rise in maritalbreakdown on the other.
Fifty years ago, Ms. Shapiro's experience would have been called a "nervous breakdown" an unscientific term for personal crises ranging from serious mental illness and alcoholism to marital problems and stress.