This is a long post
As others have said already it starts with the parents/parent in some cases, some are single mothers some are single fathers like I was, Lisa died of Liver & Kidney failure after she had her 4th child Jessica, I raised them by myself mostly, I had some help from my older sister Lori, when they were under 10 y/o, she was great at homeschooling her child, one of my Nephews Derek, mine were added to the frey for a few years, as the oldest James got a little older more responsible, he helped me tremendously with the twins Rachel & Rebecca, & their little sister Jessica, yep 4 kids in less than 6 years, I also had my Niece Sabrina & my Nephew Keith both my sister Candy's children living with me most of their younger life, I had a very nice & very large home, they were with me because of the Air Force assignments she & her husband both had all over the world, I had them probably 2/3rds of the time... My parents were great to the children, better than they ever were with me or my brothers & sisters, that for damn sure, they were young when I was born, they got divorced very shortly afterwords, both remarried, but still stay civil with each other & I'm still normal, well mostly anyway, there are allot of single parents that work there asses off for their kids, like others have said many are lousy POS parents too, then there are some that just shouldn't even have children & should be sterilized IMHO... The children are your responsibility, from conception to adulthood & many times even after that, I can attest to that fact... To make my very long point... It takes allot of effort to raise a child right, with good morals & values, not just keep squirting them out because your to "stupid" to know any better, or to expand your monthly Govt. check, or you want to be with every Tom, Dick & Harry in the hood, like so many seem to do, just look at any large city... To me, it's all about the morals you try to instill in them, they can't be forced, but can be lead down the proper path, some will be POS loser adults, some will be great adults... Then there's the schools & what morals {or lack there of} &/or Ideology they are teaching these/our children now is deplorable/horrible.... I never had to hit any of my children, I grew up with parent that hit/spanked all us children, it would be child abuse now probably, I did give a few smacks on the butt a few times, they were mostly all in fear of what I would/could do, really more than if I would actually do it... I would like to think it's respect & maybe a little fear, mostly of getting one of their perks taken away or stood in the corner for a 1/2 an hour... The mentality of a big bulk of the new Liberal nation, mostly all the Pepsi Generation or the ME generation, that are having children now, only worried about themselves... Remember JFK a Dem. by the way, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your Country", it's now shifted to "Ask what your Country can give you, not what you can do to improve your self or help others" especially those dwelling in the larger inner-cities, living on top of each other like rats, rampant with drugs, crime, perverts, with lack of parental guidance, kids running amuck or parents that had the grandparents raising the children, after just dumping them off, lack of any morals etc., Then there's the lazy teachers & their Liberal Ideology, shoving Govt. hand out mentality, down the youths throats, just paycheck collectors & overpaid baby sitters, running to their cars at last bell, shoving/cramming the Liberals Ideology in the youths brains, day after day, sort of brain washing them, because they don't know any different, instead of actually teaching them independence & self worth, that if you work hard you will get ahead, instead the Liberals Ideology the Govt. should take care of you in every aspect of your/their lives, an erosion of society & now our youth.... IMHO & it's going to get much worse, long before it will gets better, losers don't deserve trophy's, the winners do, bad students should fail & have to repeat a grade, good students should go on, they are just being lead thru like cattle now, or SHEEPLE, the moral fiber of the youth has been seriously corrupted, they have to have a damn cell phone, they have to have an Internet account, they are on Facebook, Myspace Twitter etc., they have to have some $150+ latest tennis shoes, they're not doing anything to earn them perks, it's just given to them... They need to get off their collective asses & go outside & play, step away from the computer or video game, get healty lose some fat off their collective asses.... IMHO I think we have a couple of generations, that have had this Liberal or Hippies mentality ****, shoved down their throats now, especially in all the large inner-cities public schools K-college.... Sorry for the long post, but I'm passionate about the way our countries children/youth, have been forced to drink the wrong Kool-Aid so to speak.... Written by "A proud father" College grad of University of Oregon & of 4 children that are college grads & 2 other college grads {Niece & Nephew} that I helped to raise, it can even be done even in a single parent home, they all have great moral fiber, none are on the Govt. teet, all have great jobs & most have not started families yet, I'm not use to the grampa aspect just yet either, I'm sure I will corrupt the grand children in some way, lets just hope none of the kids want to move back in with me either...LOL.. I have my hands full taking care of my elderly Pops now....
I'm glad/lucky mine turned out to be upstanding productive citizens.
