What do you think of this statement? "Some people say it takes a village to raise a child.?

Question

"Some people say it takes a village to raise a child.The only thing a village can raise is an idiot. It takes a home and a family to raise a child." I read this in a very interesting book and to me it makes a lot of sense. Thanks but no thanks Hillary Clinton.

Excuse me but you know nothing about me. I am by no means wealthy, I do contribute time and money to causes for the poor. I would never turn a person down who requested my help. What I am saying is the Parents are the ones responsible for children. If the parents can not or will not care for them then yes it is all of our responsibility.

"The village is there to support the parents, not supplant them." Now this I can agree with.

No I was raised by parents, out in a rural setting and it is an issue as to whether or not parents should teach their children thier religion.

Answer 1

Amen.......The only person my children need guiding them is myself and there father. I do not need a bunch of well intentioned, misguided individuals butting their noses in with their views, beliefs, and outlooks. Hillary Clinton obviously was raised by a village as she is the biggest of all idiots thinking parents would buy into that theory.

Answer 2

I think i see this quote a little different than you do.

Of course a parent is responsible for thier own children. It would be a very weird parent that didn't _want to_ be responisble for their own children.

But society does take part in the raising of children, whether you like it or not. There are a lot of influences from the outside world, that don't have an 'off-button'. As an extreme example: You can be the best mother ever, if a sicko enters your house, slaughters your dog..your kids are traumatized for life.

It is the parents job to teach the kids that a society is as strong as its weakest link. And that society is responsible for its weakest link. And that it takes a lot more trouble to support the weakest link than its strongest link.

Concidering all this, it does take a village to raise a child. The village, of course, won't raise the child, but it will be a very strong influence on the child. Therefore it's always our task to make the society as beautiful as is humanly possible. We should always take care of, nurture and educate society's weakest link, for the benefit of our children.

Answer 3

While the home and family are the core of a child's upbringing, the "village" is important because it's where the child learns:
- that not everybody is the same (looks, values, etc.), and how to deal with that
- how public and private life are different
- new words and ideas
- their parents' roles in the wider world (i.e., that their mom is not the ultimate authority in the universe)

I don't think the "it takes a village" quote was meant to say that a village can raise a child *without* a home and family. I think it just meant that we all have a wider responsibility for the children in our community/country/world.

Answer 4

I have never agreed with that whole "it takes a village to raise a child" bull. I hate to sound mean but YOU gave birth to it (not you specifically, but you know what I mean), YOU are it's parent, YOU are responsible for raising it. Other people are NOT responsible for your child. And oftentimes those people who say that it takes a village will throw a fit when you try to give them any sort of parenting advice or discipline their kid for something when they're not around, blowing up and going "YOU can't tell me how to raise MY kid!" Major double standard going on there. That whole "it takes a village" crap is just an excuse some liberal parents will use to promote censorship for the "sake of the children" not to mention getting the government to take more of our tax dollars to go towards supporting THEIR kids. Enough is enough. If it does "take a village" and my tax dollars are raising your kids, then I should have a say in how they are raised, shouldn't I? No? Then it's YOUR kid, YOU raise it, and stay out of MY pocketbook.

Sorry for the rant. Anyway, I agree with you.

Answer 5

I think both statements are right - but bear with me.
It takes loving, caring, involved parents to raise a child. I thank God every day for the great love and example my parents gave me.
But the BEST way to raise a child is with two loving parents in conjunction with a loving, caring village (like a parish!). The village provides emotional support for the parents and helps them stay on the right path. The village also offers friends, love, etc. to the child. The quicker a child can learn to care for others in his "village", the better person he will grow up to, seeing the love and care that others give to each other and giving it in return. If we teach our kids to help care for the village, they'll continue to do so all their lives - but they can only learn to do so with the help of their parents.
God bless.

Answer 6

I think too many people have taken the idea of "it takes a village" and twisted it into meaning "the parents don't have to take responsibility for their children."

Bullhockey.

The village is there to support the parents, not supplant them.

Answer 7

I don't like Hillary, but I've always agreed with the statement "It takes a village to raise a child." It was never meant to state that parents don't have to take full responsibility for their child's actions and upbringing, it was simply meant to state that society must take responsibility as well when it comes to preserving the standards by which we expect to be able to raise our children.

The education system is under-funded and over-restricted. You can't practice religion in school, but you can be taught by teachers who get paid HALF what they would in a normal career, whose love for their jobs is gone (or never existed), and who may not care one bit about the individual life and performance of each student. You can't turn the tv on any more without hearing excessive swearing, seeing mostly or entirely naked women, seeing and hearing drug and alcohol references, etc. You can't go to a mall without seeing 12-year-old whorish girls practicing to be a whorish adult. Movies are no longer designed to be art so much as they are quick entertainment by way of explosions and nudity.

There are plenty of deadbeat parents in this world, but society is partially responsible for feeding into that as well.

Answer 8

IF you want to raise your children without anyone else's assistance, go ahead. I just hope that you are qualified as a doctor, and as a teacher, and as a pharmacist, as a cobbler and dressmaker, etc. etc. As far as I know, no one in this country will make you do anything in regard to your children unless you are harming the welfare of the child.

And as is noted in the quote, "some people..." Apparently you are not ONE of those SOME. I think that you've made your point.

Answer 9

When I was a kid (oh so long ago) I knew that when I was outside my parents reach, the adults in the area would keep me straight. If I cussed, they told me not to, if I was misbehaving, they would rebuke me. We were taught to respect and listen to other adults. Thus the village helped raise me.
My parents were most important in raising me, but the village kept me inline when my parents weren't around to do it.

Answer 10

I think the statement is absolutely correct. I do have children and I have not been brainwashed by idiots on the far right.
Kids are influenced primarily by their parents, but also by everyone else around them. That's why troubled kids will come in geographic clusters every time.