The paragraph is followed by an incomplete phrase or sentence which summarizes the main idea of the paragraph. Choose the missing words of the phrase or sentence.

While the negative socializing forces of drugs, guns, gangs, and the media have become more threatening the positive socializing forces of family, school, religion, and neighborhood have grown relatively weak and ineffective. Increasingly children arebeing raised in homes disrupted by divorce and economic stress; too many children emerge undersocialized and undersupervised. 

The worsening （） of raising children.