Individualistic welfare responsibility

The social story that everyone is self-sufficient results in the belief that a person should not have to care for anyone else. As a result care structures are designed to avoid direct personal responsibility for another's welfare. In general the ideal of such welfare structures is to develop people's self-sufficiency so that they are no longer a burden on others. Also people can and do avoid involvement with their extended family, their metropolitan area and the world as a whole.

1. Unshared mutual responsibility

1. Unbridled individualism
2. Restrictive social policies
3. Lack of human unity
4. Insensitivity to the plight of disadvantaged people
5. Inadequate social welfare services
6. Decline of the extended family

1. Reinforced parochialism of internal values and images
2. Fear of the loss of independence

1. Compassion fatigue

1. Survivalism
2. Homesteading
3. Advocating individual responsibility

1. Welfare
2. Responsibility
3. Irresponsibility
4. Individualism
5. Tension
6. Collapse
7. Unclear
8. Misrepresentation