Does it seem that parents just don't care as much as they did when we were little?

Question

I see 2 year olds playing by the road no parents watching, kids running around in the stores, others maybe 10 or 11 just everywhere no guidence. What is with the parents today? It truly does scare me. I know I am not perfect and I am not judging either but I feel bad for these kids I really do!!

Answer 1

I don't think you mean all parents (I am overprotective) but I have seen what you mean. I think that will all of the divorce and children born out of wedlock that mom's are just depressed or have too much going on or maybe just lazy or in a poor me phase where they feel that the world owes them something and it is just too much work to take care of their children. What makes me mad is when they can't take care of one yet they keep popping them out.

Answer 2

It scares me too, of course you feel bad for these kids who have no parental guidance, you wouldn't be human if u didn't really feel and care for these kids. It isn't anything new that a lot of parents just dont care about their childrens safety and well being. There has always been kids without parents or family to love them and care for them with love , guidance and understanding, maybe you just notice it more now than you ever did before because something new has come up in your life, i have three grown chidren, and i always did wonder even when i was a child why some parents were so uncaring about their children's safety, health, and happiness.I tried hard to take care of my kids and also other peoples kids. Kids unloved and uncared for by their parents, and neglected by their family members need help from some caring concerned adult, even if it has to be social workers. Its better to report child neglect and abuse to social workers than for kids to be neglected and abused.I can say this from the heart, being a terribly abused , neglected lonely child my own self.If you see little kids out there suffering, call social services and do what you personally can to make the child's life a little more bearable. God bless you for caring, now make a difference in a child's life.

Answer 3

Yes! Just the other day I called the police because there was a baby standing in the middle of the road when I came home from the grocery store. I knew where the baby lived, but I didn't take him to his parents. I took him home with me. The mom was really pissed but I didn't care. She should have been watching him. The officer thanked me for caring and then called Child Services.

Answer 4

sadly we live in a culture where the idea of a "society" helping to raise the kids is lost. I mean think about it when we were little the neighbor could tell us to behave and it was no biggie.. but today.. the concept is .. nobody has the right to speak to a kid other than the parent.

Look at some of the teachers that get in trouble for simple things they do to keep kids in line??

what scares me is that when my kids are misbehaving(in my mind and people tell me they are being good what does that say about kids in our culture??)...

The respect issues are so much different than they were years ago.. I try very very hard to keep mine respectful. but I know that mine are telling me that they have friends whose parents don't really care what their kids do as long as they get the grades.. sad isn;t it?

Answer 5

With half of all marriages ending in divorce, both parents working and lack of proper discipline, moral upbringing and basic values, the family structure has fallen apart. I only expect it to get worse. I am really considering not having children because I wouldn't want them exposed to so many of the barbarians people are raising these days.

People are too busy turning a blind eye against what their children do wrong and refusing to correct them. They are raising narcissistic little brats who are someday going to be ruling society and trust me, it will be scary to be old and in their care (or lack thereof)!

All that being said, I know there are still some fantastic people out there raising phenomenal children, but my fear is that they will be overshadowed by the prior.

Answer 6

The problem is that sometimes it takes a village to raise children and we don't have that kind of society. We need to pay more attention to what they are exposed to. As adults we do not provide quality time for our children, because we are off chasing our own $$ to keep up. Our priorities are in the wrong place.

Answer 7

I have two kids, 12 and 8, and I am probably even more vigilant with them than my parents were with me. It's really never a good idea to generalize about such a broad subject. There are some sh*tty parents out there, but there are some absolutely fantastic ones as well.

Answer 8

Parents not only don't care anymore, they've given up raising their children. If I'd have done any of the things kids do nowadays, I wouldn't have sat down for a week...

Answer 9

My downstairs neighbor used to have her son outside with no hat, no shoes, no coat, outside in the winter..I have also saw the boy playing outside..and his mom was way too far from him, also this woman used to leave her son for like 45 minutes to go talk to the neighbors(from what I heard) and sometimes the little boy gets out..and they don't notice...and she has the nerve to say she wants to watch my son. My son's father doesn't take his eyes off our son for a second..I am a little more lenient..but I would never let him in the streets or roaming stores by himself.

Answer 10

yes kids:
grab stuff off the shelves
scream
argue with adults
I see small kids wondering in stores with no adult in sight.
When Jr and Jrette become teens and are out of control will "mom and dad" say how did they get that way?