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Originally Posted by major liability I think the decline in the quality of parenting has a lot to do with the fact that it's impossible to raise a family on one person's income these days unless you have a great job. So the parents are absent, and the kids are raised by day cares and television. You know, I think it was intentionally set up this way... helps to get rid of the family unit if you want a nation of dependent consumers. |
What you say might well be true, but I feel that it is deeper than that. There seems to have been a great change in people's expectations in particularly the last thirty years. In the day of my parents, they got married and being ordinary working class people, they never expected to be able to own their own home, most people in their circumstances usually rented their house. By my generation came along it was far better with virtually all of us expecting to own our own homes with a little hard work.
I may be wrong, but to me it seems that about 20 - 30 years ago most young adults not only expected to own their own home, they expected to own a home as good or better than that of their parents immediately and the banks were quite willing to loan them the money to do it.
This is what led to the situation where both parents ended up having to work to service the loans that they had taken out to live the lifestyle of their choice. Now this is not all bad, as it shows that kids of today are willing to work, but the cost comes in parenting, and other social problems generated by this change in the way we raise our children.
Both of my kids have homes better than my wife and I live in, my daughter and son in law paid their house of completely in seven years and are now building a second story on top, which they estimate they will raise the money for in two years. The result being that they both work and as yet have no children which I think is a great shame.
It was overheard by my wife when talking to an acquaintance about children, "I'll be glad when they go to school and the teachers can teach them to behave"..... I'm not saying all young parents are this way but there is definitely a change in the way children of today are being raised.