Social Contract 2021

​​​​​​​The year 2021 started with a bang, not a whimper. The pain, confusion, conflicts and challenges that families face in the United States and around the world defy description. Superlatives such as “unprecedented,” “monumental” and “historic” do little justice to describe the state of the world today. We’re in the midst of a fundamental transformation, potentially pivoting from post-WWII norms to a new social contract defining how the three sectors of society—government, private (for