This article talks about the decline in participation in organizations that promote civic duty and citizenship, including Girl Scouts (and Boy Scouts) plus organizations like the Lions Club. Perhaps the membership concern within Guiding is something that will be difficult to overcome unless there are changes in society ...
"Twenty-first century America is not the nation of joiners that amazed Alexis de Tocqueville in the 1830s; it is not a place where citizens engage constantly to assemble democracy's quilt. The very groups that once promoted citizenship have seen their membership rates dwindle, groups like the Grange, Masons, American Legion, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts."
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