The unanticipated by-product of a desirably diverse, highly mobile society, unfettered by past restraints, may be the disappearance of communally held values and the accompanying loss in civility. We always knew that the old bases for community were going: common ethnic backgrounds; shared religions; extended families. Even the nuclear family, that once immutable core, is fast disappearing. Thirty years ago Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned that the percentage of children being born to black mothers out of wedlock had reached catastrophic proportions. That percentage has now been equaled by whites, and the percentage for blacks has doubled.