Things like television have v-chips, music with explicit lyric markers, xxx rated is for a reason, I was just wondering if parents even keep an eye on their kids today. Oh, yes, you all pretty much work..how about now using aol, or msn for your kids on the computer, parental control you know. Educating your children about things is a must, Now everyone wants the government to monitor the computers, are you all serious. I feel like I am starting to live in a communist country, and the gestapo is putting alcoholics in prision like they did in Russia and I think they still do. You all seem like a bunch of control freaks these days because you have to go to work. Police yourselves and your own families....Grow UP!!! Wake up!!
2006-06-20 02:21:03 · 12 answers · asked by ? 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Civic Participation
I don't mean all parents, But if the shoe fits wear it...there are lots of good responsible parents out there and people. Get real.
2006-06-20 02:31:32 · update #1
because in today's society no one accepts responsibility for there actions or for there kids actions. So they have to blame any one they can. And when they blame someone else it takes the blame off of them. sad isn't it
2006-06-20 02:25:50 · answer #1 · answered by army cav wife 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The government uses propaganda and scare tactics to bend the will of the people.
The insidious thing about this form of thought control is that even when we realize that entertainment or news is biased, we can still be manipulated. All of the controlled media-television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books, and motion pictures-speak with a single voice, each reinforcing the other. Despite the appearance of variety, there is no real dissent, no alternative source of facts or ideas accessible to the public that might allow them to form opinions at odds with those of the media manipulators.
2006-06-20 17:40:26 · answer #2 · answered by the_decider 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All parents don't do that. I am a stay home mom of 2 boys (and keep 3 others during the day) and I watch what my kids watch, I listen to what they listen to, and they are only allowed to use the internet when I (or my husband) am able to sit with them and oversee.
I, for one, am getting really irritated with all of these posts generalizing parents. Some parents still do have the traditional values.
2006-06-20 02:26:07 · answer #3 · answered by paj 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excellent question and one I have been wondering about for ages. If you bother to go to the trouble of HAVING kids, why wouldn't you want to be the one to RAISE them and teach them about life and values?
As far as I'm concerned, I want the government out of my parenting. I want to be able to specify if my child should/n't receive sex-ed; watches TV; eats properly; etc. It IS NOT up to the government to tell me such things. I am an adult and am capable of raising my own people.
However, that said, there are MANY people out there who are incompetent when it comes to children. Since ANYONE can have kids, I sort of "get" why the govt and other peopel feel the need to intervene. How many people let their kids watch "Sex and the City" or play "Vice City" etc? How many let their kids run wild, don't teach manners, and don't instill a sense of civic duty?
Not that the govt does these things. But people who are not equipped to raise children SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED to do so.
2006-06-20 07:46:31 · answer #4 · answered by Goose&Tonic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not every parent is a bum! at this point i am a stay at home mother for my 2 year old son. I will soon be going back to college, but i have stacked my classes down to 2 days a week in order to have plenty of time with my child.
2006-06-20 02:31:40 · answer #5 · answered by Sam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is because the government has tied the hands of parents. While I do not advocate for beating a child, when the wood shed got torn down the children have lost respect for the parents and all adults because of it.
2006-06-20 02:26:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The government wants to be "involved" in the lives of american citizens anyway. Parents have just decided to let the government and have stepped aside.
2006-06-21 01:54:39 · answer #7 · answered by Marianna 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being a parent is soooooooooooooo hard and I've got better things to do.
That is the responsibility of being a parent. I will help my children on the path of right and wrong.
2006-06-20 02:24:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i imagine the clarification being, too a lot of them grew up in a house, no longer a house. in distinctive those homes the youngsters were in the way, and a hinderence on the mothers and fathers lives. thats why some seem for love and relations on the line. then, they improve their little ones like they were. i raised my little ones to understand, they were my little ones, no longer my equivalent, and they knew i loved them. i think sorry if you happen to don't have that.
2016-10-14 08:14:30 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"It is possible, of course, to keep
educated people unfree in a state of civilization, but it's
much easier to keep ignorant people unfree in a state
of civilization. And it is easiest of all if you can
convince the ignorant that they are educated, for you
can thus make them collaborators in your disposition
of their liberty and property. That is the institutionally
assigned task, for all that it may be invisible to those
who perform it, of American public education."
(From THE GRAVES OF ACADEME by Richard Mitchell)
2006-06-20 02:45:12 · answer #10 · answered by M L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i must agree with you here
and further i must say that we ought to simply allow children to learn about sex, violence and any other subject we consider an "adult subject", i dont understand why kids are having information kept from them
it seems to me that we ought to just let them learn about life all through life instead of handing out portions of all the information at certain age levels
2006-06-20 02:36:16 · answer #11 · answered by whoisgod71 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋