WHY the "BLEEP" was nobody worried about the kids when I was growing up?

Question

Everybody seems to be SOOOO bleepin worried about the kids these days and how they are being neglected because they don't have but one playstation 2, and mommie and daddy didn't buy them a BMW for their first cars...Where the Bleep were all the bleeding hearts when my family was growing up back in the 70's? Heh, living with a pscho parent who threatened to burn the house around our ears didn't get social services involved, nor the police department...but the police did call in a priest for some reason..maybe to give us all our last rites before the ol man caught up with mama and the rest of us...

Answer 1

My guess is because the self-esteem campaign in America hadn't hit yet while you were growing up. Once people started focusing on raising childrens' self-esteem, it blew out of proportion into irresponsibility. And now we see the fruit of the self-esteem movement.

Answer 2

The laws have changed. Children are protected more now than then. The parents, us, have also changed. We now want kids to have more than what we had....a better life.
It is not any childs fault for being given a better life. It is not the fault of a parent, with an unfortunate childhood, wanting to give their child of a better life.
For all of those, who grew up in abuseful situations, with no way out, grow to feel angry and resentful against the law as well as those who did not help or even those who are more fortunate in life now.
An individual has to forgive in order to move on. If to forgive is forbidden then the anger and resentment will stay. Forgiving does not mean you have to be near that person or even tell anyone. It is within an individual.
An unhappy life without the answer you are looking for would be all you have, for there would be no answer accepted by you.

Answer 3

Because back when we were kids, it was considered a family issue that people were not supposed to get involved in except your other relatives.

My dad said you kept that kind of thing in the neighborhood - if there was a problem like that, the local parents would deal with it - dads would go talk to the problem dad, moms go talk ot he problem dad, and more serious "action" taken when necessary, if you know what I mean. At least that's the way it was where we grew up. Spouse says it was the same in his neighborhood.

Too bad you all didn't know my dad - he'd have helped you out.

Answer 4

sh!t, i think you. some people say i'm no longer worried with reference to the stepkids simply by fact i do no longer prepare dinner meat for his or her dinner. the alien deliver kin is vegetarian. I even have cooked a million hen in my life. I wore gloves. Ooo and each so often I provide them alfredo sauce from a jar *gasp*! it relatively is in basic terms horror upon horrors that i exploit it from a jar as a replace of coming up it from scratch. Edit: Dez is in basic terms a be attentive to-it-all youngster. She is 21 now and might purchase alcohol so she thinks she is grown and is familiar with all of it. i'm coping with the 18 365 days previous version of her, and have faith me its no longer a extraordinarily sight.

Answer 5

People are more educated now on the impact disfunctional families and society have on kids. Not that this helps because I think the kids are getting worse with each generation. the services available now don't really help anyway.

Answer 6

That sounds terrible. I guess its because years ago things were more secretive within the family. I hope you life has improved and that your scars have healed.

Answer 7

YEAH....BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!