Is it easier to blame society for the poor upbringing of a child, then to take responsibility as a parent?

Answer 1

Yes it is easier to blame society, as a parent raising your child is your respinsibility although I do feel society does play a minor part ultimatley it is up to the parents. Society has set up exceptable and unexceptable ways to deal with children therefore, so many parents are afraid they may be judged by doing what they may need to do to disipline their children. I am not talking about beating them. For example we are shopping and my 4 year old is walking next to me, she knows she needs to walk nicely and not run off from me or her punishment will be to ride in the cart. Well she ran ahead of me one day and I told her she needed to sit in the cart, I picked her up set her in the front and buckled her in. Of course there was a major tantrum and when I told her we were leaving I had a lady come up to me and told me I should not make her cry like that and than asked what I did to her to make her scream that way. Society make it so much of their business on how everyones child is raised I think they need to take some of the blame as well. I myself have not conformed my dispipline style to societies and I feel I have wonderful children. I am complimented daily on thier behavior.

Answer 2

I believe that all parents should take independant responsbility for their childrens behavior, but that children should also be blamed for their behavior, no matter how good of a parent you were, there is still a chance that a child will stray far from the tree, and get into a social group that is a bad influence. What Im saying is that the child should be held responsible for his/her actions otherwise the child will never grow to be a better person.

Answer 3

I guess it is easier for some people to blame everything else but themselves. You can't lay all the blame on the parents if the child grows up and does things wrong in life.
Just because you come from a broken home does not mean you have to repeat the same mistakes as your parents did.

Answer 4

I think it's easier to blame society for the poor upbringing of a child because we usually say this when we don't have kids yet. Also, I admit, sometimes we blame others when we notice something wrong in them but don't notice our own mistakes.

Answer 5

Absolutely. That's why so many people seem to be blaming society these days. It's always easier to blame others for things we may have done wrong. When we blame others, we put the guilt on them. People do this to avoid having to feel the guilt. Also, when a mistake is somebody else's fault, the responsiblity to fix the mistake lies with them, not with us.

So, many people would rather put the guilt for their child's upbringing, and the responsiblity of fixing it, on the backs of others.

Answer 6

hi,
you should take the responsibility as the child parent and not allow society to dictate how you are to raise your child. Society it self has always tried to push it way into the order of doing things, such as how you are to discipline you child, or what is the right way to feed,dress,and attend to your child. Not to mention the way that you do things from the time you sleep to the amount of children you have If you are going to allow society to dictate you life then blame them. If you are going to raise you kids the way you feel the child should be raised with your beliefs,and you morals then don't blame them

Answer 7

its a lot harder to raise children in todays society. personally i dont have any but most of my friends do and i dont know what its like in other counties but where im from people are scared to discipline their kids for fear of the kids not liking what their parents have to say (and im not talking abuse either) and either run away or the cops being called. Society has made it so that the power is now left with the kids and the parents are left feeling helpless and dont know what to do. respect seems to have disappeared. But this is what society has created.

Answer 8

Yes, but that doesn't make it the real problem.

I am a responsible parent. It's unfortunate that too many parents aren't willing to take the responsibility that I never had a problem handling.

Answer 9

well, of course it's easier! it's always easier to just blame someone else, but it's not right! you should take responsibility as a parent.

Answer 10

Nobody wants to take that blame, so why not blame it on society.
Parents should be better parents