Unmarried Women and Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Daniel Patrick Moynihan: Moynihan said that when deviant behaviors such as violent crime, or births to unmarried women reach a certain level, society soothes itself by defining deviancy down, according to The Japan Times. When the economy grew by just 2.6 percent in 2014 s fourth quarter, the New York Times headline cheerfully said Economy Pulls Ahead. The story said the U.S. economy is an island of relative strength in a world facing renewed torpor and turmoil. This was defining failure down and Two phrases that Daniel Patrick Moynihan put into America s political lexicon two decades ago are increasingly pertinent. They explain the insufficient dismay about recent economic numbers. It de-stigmatizes the behaviors by declaring them normal. And sometimes, Moynihan said, social problems are the result of iatrogenic government. In medicine, an iatrogenic ailment is inadvertently induced by a physician or medicine; in social policy, iatrogenic problems are caused by government. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.