But the concerns they express about the weakening of family ties apply quite clearly to concerns about the weakening of community ties.
But the surprising reality is that the recent weakening of social ties has coincided with a decline in mobility.
The economic crisis had "produced a weakening of family ties and other safety nets, particularly in the public sector".
In 2016, for the first time, more than half the American dead were cremated, marking a change to the landscape of every city and town — tombstones uncarved, graveyards abandoned — and a weakening of the ties that bind the living to the dead.
If lack of secure legal status constrains visits to the homeland, this constraint could be transmitted to long-distance, non-mobile activities by the weakening of social ties.
At least in this urban slum setting, where marriages are more likely to be self-arranged rather than by parents or family, the weakening of family ties and social control, coupled with increased opportunities for re-partnering and economic independence of women may contribute to higher rates of divorce (Dommaraju and Jones, 2011).
In Germany, a senior foreign ministry official, Karsten Vogt, said recently the limited defense planned by the Clinton administration -- which would protect the United States, but not Europe -- would lead to a weakening of the military ties between the United States and its European allies.
If the current security relationships are solely guided by economic concerns, then a possibility of a paradigm shift in the economic interests provides a dual possibility of strengthening as well as weakening of these security ties.
Because at a time of weakening ideological ties among much of the public, Twitter and Facebook increasingly intensify tribal sentiment among the already convinced.
