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Making Caring Common regularly publishes reports that examine barriers to caring and ways in which adults can help children overcoming those barriers.

Please direct any media inquiries to Alison Cashin at media@makingcaringcommon.org.

Posts tagged Caring and Empathy
The Children We Mean to Raise: The Real Messages Adults Are Sending About Values

Our youth’s values appear to be awry, and the messages that we’re unintentionally sending as adults may be at the heart of the problem.

According to our recent national survey, a large majority of youth across a wide spectrum of races, cultures, and classes appear to value aspects of personal success—achievement and happiness—over concern for others. At the root of this problem may be a gap between what parents say are their top priorities and the real messages they convey in their behavior day to day.

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