Good living or good life?

Dear all,
Today I heard a few things which had a great impact on me, and made me think a lot about it. I assisted the Sunday sermon of a Church (it doesn't matter which one), different from where I belong as religion, and I can say that after that I was contemplating all the afternoon about the wise minister's words.
He said that at the end of the 20th century was the time of collapse of many kind of systems and institutions as political, economical, social, etc. systems, which caused always major changes. After these, people had to adapt and learn to live with the new system, which is not always going on smoothly. This was just the introductory idea, because the main idea is related to the institution of the family and the big change between the traditional definition of the family and the one it became today.
Thinking about this I had to realize that the notion of family had changed so much in a very short time. When I was a child, I remember, family meant a strong bond between people, and in most of the cases it meant also to live together, or at least to be close to each other. Today everything is different, because people think we have bigger freedom than in the past. It is true that travelling became quite easy, distances are not so big problem any more, but I'm not sure that this mean we are more free. Young people are leaving the parents' homes for a better living, to earn more money, without noticing that the family bonds will be loosened very much because of the distance, lack of time or maybe lack of interest. But in many cases the prospect of a better living is destroying marriages, and it is leaving children with severe psychological scars because they didn't have the parental love, support and model in their childhood.
This is the reason why I doubt that this wandering and moneymaking lifestyle means more freedom. I admit that the chances to gain wealth are better than in the past, let's say than during the period of communism, thanks to the fact that we can move and work in different countries, where making a living is better. But we are losing so many personal values, that finally we will arrive to have everything without knowing how to share it with a beloved person, and without belonging to a certain place or to a certain group. Freedom is good, but humans have social needs, and one of these is to belong somewhere, and to be part of a group (like a family, a friend circle, a community, etc).
The concept of the family and the communities are collapsing, as people care more and more about the material values, but there is hope for everything. There is always possibility to rebuild a new system, to adept the institutions to the new needs, on the ruins of the old ones, as there is a strong base what can be used. If people, especially the youngsters would be willing to find balance between the personal and material values and needs, the collapse could be transformed into innovation and redefinition.